I know this sounds bad, but maybe this is a blessing in disguise. Necessity is the mother of invention and maybe browser technology should be funded by governments instead of privately owned advertising megacorps?

  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Yes. In 2001. Not just proper design of all the system and all the solutions in it was possible, it was there in flesh, and it was on the market, and it was visible, and the world went the other route.

    Literally all of it, engineers sometimes can design logically complete systems, and great engineers sometimes do that with amazingly enormous systems, and one of such people took part in inception of BSD Unix, Internet, RISC and Java, all of them. How the Web should function has already been thought through.

    TBH in my childhood I complained about Java applications being slow though.

    But with a typical modern website that complaint seems dishonest in retrospective.

    OK, I guess I’m just blabbering because of boredom.