vga256Mar 1

in 1996 the university of alberta let departments manage their own homepages

mwah. 🤌

#smallWeb #1990s #worldwideWeb #webpreservation

Show threadJosh Justice
@vga256 connecting some maybe obvious dots: is the iPhone what made responsive design a must and therefore killed unique looking web sites?
Mar 1 at 12:10pmWeb
Show threadvga256Mar 1
@CodingItWrong partly, I think. a much bigger killer was Wordpress and other CMS packages with themes.
Show threadJosh JusticeMar 1
@vga256 ah yeah true, especially with how much of the web that WordPress itself runs
Show threadabadideaMar 2

@CodingItWrong @vga256 there’s no reason a responsive design can’t be unique or quirky. It’s just that the web became vastly more corporate.

(my own Classical Chinese website is based on a responsive template but customized to make it more artistic https://厄.net/classicalchinese/ )

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