What do you miss from the old internet? - eviltoast

i think we need Cracked-style articles back. desperately. or like, a guy doing a weird thing and writing a piece on it. sites like those are declining faster than the glaciers.

  • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
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    8 months ago

    I think there might have been a secondary shift.

    Era 1: we have things like media queries or some unholy Javascript hoisting to adjust layout as the page size changes, But the site targets 1024 pixel wide or larger screens as the default and subtracts or hides items as it shrinks.

    Era 2: we kept the tools but assumed a 350-pixel wide phone is default. When you take it to a desktop, it reflows the text wider but doesn’t add back, for example, the menus that were hidden behind a hamburger icon on mobile.