haven't updated chrome in a while. love to see that they are cramming the godawful UI update down everyone's throats.
the modern UI trend of adding as much wasted space as physically possible makes me want to commit actionable threats. WHY THE FUCK IS HALF OF MY SCREEN TAKEN UP BY THE CONTEXT MENU!
every other browser all equally looks like shit these days too. WHERE THE FUCK IS DENSITY ANYMORE. WHERE IS USABILITY. I WANT THINGS TO LOOK AND BE USABLE. WHY IS THIS IMPOSSIBLE
being born in 2000 does the trick. i have equally been saying this for 12 years though even as a kid i hated things getting uglier AND THEY ONLY EVER GET UGLIER
Web 1.0 is genuinely beautiful
I think thats why hypnospace outlaw was so captivating to me
It just had a real aesthetic to it, nowadays everything from icons to type faces are meant to be neutral
1.0 internet looked like Johnny Mnumonic
Oh to be 10 years old again
Before the towers went down
Before the house was foreclosed on
When UI design was the brain child of a mad programmer who barely spoke html and not a buncha smooth brains at google HQ
When people cared about design language and not just minimalism for minimalism sake
Like, web hosting under different domain names like .ninja or something isn't expensive
I'd be lying if i said i hadn't attempted a Retvrn once or twice over the decades
Becoming a retvrn person but just for busy backgrounds, little widgets that chase the mouse and clear links that change color when you've visited them.
"Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable, and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided." Brian Eno
