I didn’t change the frame of reference. Those technologies are 30 years old. Back when I started using computers, you had to download every little thing and websites looked like shit. That was the problem that needed solving. Your “solution” was to basically just keep doing that. In fact, you don’t even think it was a problem.
Viruses and malware didn’t exist in your world, did they? You were happy loading up any old program onto your DOS machine to test it, right? No sandboxing, no nothing. The world was perfect back then. Java applets were a treat too, right? Running right in your user environment with access to the full disk. Why ever change that? There wouldn’t ever be a problem with drive-by infections. Nooo, full-disk access is not a problem to solve.
GIFs were an amazing technology too. We should’ve stayed with that instead of streaming or upload videos to watch them in the browser. Yeah, I loved having to download everything then hope the video format was playable locally.
Bro, your “proposal” to just stay stuck in Y2K is garbage and you expect me to just nod along. Good old days my ass. Web apps exist for a bloody reason and solve real problems. If you seriously think they’re just here to flash ads at you and track you, then you stopped thinking years ago. Think about a real, alternative solution instead just “we don’t need it”. It might actually get some dust off the cogs in that machine of yours instead of just storing old memories and wishing times hadn’t changed.
I didn’t change the frame of reference. Those technologies are 30 years old. Back when I started using computers, you had to download every little thing and websites looked like shit. That was the problem that needed solving. Your “solution” was to basically just keep doing that. In fact, you don’t even think it was a problem.
Viruses and malware didn’t exist in your world, did they? You were happy loading up any old program onto your DOS machine to test it, right? No sandboxing, no nothing. The world was perfect back then. Java applets were a treat too, right? Running right in your user environment with access to the full disk. Why ever change that? There wouldn’t ever be a problem with drive-by infections. Nooo, full-disk access is not a problem to solve.
GIFs were an amazing technology too. We should’ve stayed with that instead of streaming or upload videos to watch them in the browser. Yeah, I loved having to download everything then hope the video format was playable locally.
Bro, your “proposal” to just stay stuck in Y2K is garbage and you expect me to just nod along. Good old days my ass. Web apps exist for a bloody reason and solve real problems. If you seriously think they’re just here to flash ads at you and track you, then you stopped thinking years ago. Think about a real, alternative solution instead just “we don’t need it”. It might actually get some dust off the cog
sin that machine of yours instead of just storing old memories and wishing times hadn’t changed.