<story><title>Surfing the Modern Web with Ancient Browsers</title><url>http://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/?p=3866</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colechristensen</author><text>Sometimes I think back and ask myself if all of this progress in web standards has really got us anywhere. What can we do now that couldn&amp;#x27;t be done 20 years ago (putting aside connection speed) and is all of this progress really worth the trouble.&lt;p&gt;It makes a person want to start over, from scratch while keeping it simple adding as little as possible.  Of course something like that would have to be done extraordinarily well to be worth it at all to avoid &lt;a href=&quot;https://xkcd.com/927/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;xkcd.com&amp;#x2F;927&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dasil003</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a nice dream, but even if you had that power to go back and time you&amp;#x27;d probably just make other mistakes.&lt;p&gt;There isn&amp;#x27;t an intelligence capable of designing big open standards like the web, rather they only move forward by natural selection, much like terrestrial life has.&lt;p&gt;In the end I think we&amp;#x27;ve gotten some pretty remarkable things this way, remember before the web there was no such thing as cross-platform, instantly-available globally, and accessible to any person with any disability multimedia.  Few people seem to recognize how much of an accomplishment this is: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEY58fiSK8E&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=uEY58fiSK8E&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Surfing the Modern Web with Ancient Browsers</title><url>http://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/?p=3866</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colechristensen</author><text>Sometimes I think back and ask myself if all of this progress in web standards has really got us anywhere. What can we do now that couldn&amp;#x27;t be done 20 years ago (putting aside connection speed) and is all of this progress really worth the trouble.&lt;p&gt;It makes a person want to start over, from scratch while keeping it simple adding as little as possible.  Of course something like that would have to be done extraordinarily well to be worth it at all to avoid &lt;a href=&quot;https://xkcd.com/927/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;xkcd.com&amp;#x2F;927&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>It just made us lost the sense where to go, by re-inventing, &lt;i&gt;badly&lt;/i&gt;, what was already possible on the desktop with Hypercard and similar systems.</text></comment>