honestly the last time i felt like i knew computer science type shit and web design was when i was able to hand-code a simple webpage in notepad with all my knowledge gained from making neopets webpages.
and i'm pretty content with that being the zenith of my cs career
@wigglytuffitout (like, I legit think all the fun went out of computing, or at least I've never been able to see the newer shit as fun at all)
@Alyx same, tbh
...let's not discuss the i-frame craze that followed the great Side Frame For Navigatio Or No battle. i'm trying to forget the time in my life when i thought 300x500 px was more than enough room to read all content contained within it, with a pastel-colored scroll bar and text at negative fuckyou pixels
@wigglytuffitout I mean...it kinda _was_? that's the crazy thing, it's not like web pages were totally unusable back when having 800x600 pixels seemed like unimaginable luxury
now having 1920x1080 doesn't seem enough. web pages have gotten so damn BUSY
@Alyx GOD yeah
i kinda miss when the hotness was a tiny window of content and lush - but STATIC. - window dressing around it
tbh the last time i shopped for something at e.l.f. i got a 'take a survey!' and just went on a screed about how their web designers should feel bad, because the number of clicks and scrolls to get to a thing i clicked to see was absurd. it's like the internet is full of pushy salespeople swarming you, when you just want to look at the shelf
@Alyx GOD honestly valid
i'm just amazed at how many times it's the same people doing the advertising. like, if i click to see the lipsticks, maybe i wanna look at the lipsticks you sell, daggum website, not three clicks later and two full page scrolls down to finally see The Fucking Lipsticks lmao
@wigglytuffitout "it's like the internet is full of pushy salespeople swarming you" ya think? X=3 the internet's really never recovered from not knowing any other way to support itself without nonstop advertising. like, not sure what the answer would have been, maybe it'll take a whole different culture and civilization before it's even possible to have an internet that's not awful