Ernie Miller
Cassandra is only carbon nowThere's been a lot of spilled pixels, but I guess all-in-all, I just want the Internet — the Web, especially — back. I want "app" to mean "application," not "platform." I want links, not embeds. I want writing, art, and code to flourish, not "content." I want 10 MB on my janky little ISP to call my own, not "cloud-scale." I want to copy and paste my own stuff, not "export" it. I want one-off cgi-bin weirdnesses, not monolithic frameworks.
Yeah, that's romanticizing the past, which is problematic af. The Web was never truly for everyone, and that really fucking sucks. I can't help but feel like, though, we've replaced a Web that didn't include enough people with some nameless web-scale thing that doesn't include anyone.
Allan Chow
Episode 1 - Mongo DB Is Web Scale
Ben Evans@xgranade The Internet of the mid-late 90s that I remember most definitely did not include everyone.
But I, and others, had a sense that it could do - that there was a future version of it that was capable of being for everyone. It is that future, that possibility, that I really miss.
Ley@xgranade Yes, you are my people! *high five*
unspeakablehorror@xgranade I don't want 10 mb limitations back, but I do think there's a lot of troubling trends on the modern web (and yes, I loathe 'apps' that try to bypass the browser, for the benefit of some megacorp). I actually started a website to talk about this:
https://new-old-web.neocities.org/
https://new-old-web.neocities.org/
lp0 on fire 
@xgranade, recommendation: yyyy-mm-dd. Absolutely not the abomination which is the American muddle-endian date format.
Alexander Portnoy 🌊 🏳️🌈@xgranade So, how do you feel about dial up?
hesgen@xgranade Now that is a hill upon which to die!
Diabolic Preacher@xgranade also like i want my decade old web dev skills to be relevant again..
*brushes up decade+ old php*
*brushes up decade+ old php*
ConsoleWitch@xgranade its a nice daydream