This is amazing. I miss the days when the web truly felt like a vast tapestry of people energetically letting their freak flags fly.
Pave paradise, put up... an algorithm to maximize engagement.
Pave paradise, put up... an algorithm to maximize engagement.
God help them if they saw the blink tag…
Because.. why use a perfectly good browser to render your html when you can implement another, lesser browser within the browser in javascript and have THAT render your html, but badly.
Also, divs and css for layouts suck, TABLES is the way to go :)
Unless you replicate the table in different configurations and use CSS to show one for each screen size.
I LOATH tables. Flexbox is so much easier.
You can still see this on twitch, YT, tiktok, etc. Just like Geocities represents amateur or even naive web development/web design, there are the same types of people trying to create video content. Even Twitter (including the "weird Twitter" genre of tweets) and other social media sites are full of amateur commentators, writers, comedians, musicians, etc.
Web development/web design, including the tools and techniques available to the hobbyist has just gotten much more mature. People no longer feel like a kid in the candy store in terms of adding blinking text and rotating gifs, and tutorial websites are no longer showing these examples.
There is nothing organic about TikTok. You have to wade through a deluge of formulaic dance videos set to repetitive music clips for about an hour before the all-powerful algorithm determines that maybe you're not interested in that.
For a platform that probably has billions of videos (Geocities never did), discoverability outside of the algorithm is impossible, because the search functionality sucks.