Deurbanising the Web (pdf)

Deurbanising the Web

“I’ve migrated to HTML 4.”

  • Mark Pilgrim, January 2003.

“The software industry is currently going through the “disposable plastic” crisis the physical world went through in the mid-20th century (and is still paying down the debt for). You can run software from 1980 or 2005 on a modern desktop without too much hassle, but anything between there and 2-3 years ago? Black hole of fad frameworks and brittle dependencies. Computer Archaeology is going to become a full-time job.”

  • Linux Weekly News, August 2020

Computing in the 2020s is (still) a user-hostile shifting sand land1. We are drowning in churn and noise. I am fighting back by switching this website from HTML to PDF.

Yes, blasted, accursed PDF, of all things!

“Why? Why?! For the love of all that is holy, why?!” you say!

Read in full here:

https://lab6.com/0

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