Bring back websites
During the last half of the nineties, the Internet still felt highly segregated—to a mainstream consumer, it was hard to see the ideological relationship between limitless porn and fantasy football and Napster and the eradication of travel agents. What unified that diaspora was the rise of blogging, spawning what’s now recognized as the “voice” of
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But most websites today prioritize efficiency and usability, which leads to a kind of architectural sameness. “Everybody's house sort of looks the same,” he says, “you're taking the same hallway... because we’ve fallen into the same UI patterns.” He wonders about a new kind of website that invites curiosity rather than just guiding a behavior. “Isn... See more
An Inside Look at Every’s Design Philosophy
While the internet has evolved to be a sophisticated digital library for every part of life, it has lost some features along the way – particularly the magic of discovery, the joy of falling into rabbit holes and feeling safe on the way down.
Digital Frontier
the internet used to be a place! Or at least it was for me. I love how the internet exposes the weird and funny things about being a person alive in the world.