The writing is on the wall.

Maybe we need to hire construction teams to break into peoples' houses and change them every 5 seconds.

Currently doing some interesting experiments on a bunch of Legacy Windows VMs. ;-)

Microsoft back then was just a software company, they didn't care about your real life. Unfortunately, companies today are a different story.

well Google is constantly moving too fast and they're mainly an internet company, whereas Microsoft was just the software company.

derp

Unfortunately, that's how it's like sadly. People just want the "constant CONSTANT CONSTANT UPDATES!!!" without thinking properly, even if they don't need the new features but it's just because the company said so.

Heck, physical books don't even need to get any updates and I can still enjoy picking them up and reading them, just like I can still enjoy launching the old software and using them.

IMHO the software is already feeling like 99% complete, companies just want to abuse the users, get them to use their abusive models, and milk the software in general just because they're lacking any ideas for new "features".

Anyways, feel free to throw pitchforks at me all you want ;)

Physical books are obsolete for not changing without your consent every 5 seconds. /s

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Slightly off-topic: I've been viewing YouTube on a old YouTube frontend that works back to (at least iirc) IE6 and Win98 for some time now [1] [2] [3]. The frontend feels mad snappy as hell and it loads fast compared to YouTube today since the frontend is not heavily JavaScript reliant, it just uses it to enhance the site.

[1] https://i.ibb.co/YpmFP91/yt2009-34.png [2] https://i.ibb.co/THK0wk0/yt2009-35.png [3] https://i.ibb.co/nk7nxZQ/yt2009-36.png

Developing for old technologies in general (especially hardware) can help make your code and project lighter in general.

(see: alternative frontends for YouTube and Twitter, YouTube circa. 2005-2011, even 2012-2016)

I do see your point. What I mean is that we have oversized UIs and hamburger menus on the desktop which makes me feel like for a while now, the desktop has been an afterthought when it comes to web design.

:P

Anyways, for me, I just loathe how the whole site is designed in general. Opening YouTube today on a modern browser is slower than opening it on IE6 back then and the whole site relies on a JavaScript framework even though frontends like Invidious, Piped, and YT2009 (and possibly even more) show that you don't need JavaScript or have to make the entire site rely on it just to view content.

Tbh, same. I do miss getting some information about Windows betas pretty much, but other than that, I won't miss Twitter at all.

People need to publish more on more open and community driven solutions. Heck, even publishing information for a site that still works on older PCs is better than publishing information on Twitter.

Sadly that won't be the case for some time to a while. Most people only care about the moment of the trend rather than what the future will look like.

Unrelated but IMHO, web bloat will also kill the internet more than IE at this point.