I’ve had this list of dot-points sitting here, slowing growing, over the past few months. Though I’d wanted to turn it into a little essay, I think I just need to post it all before it rots.
So here are an assortments of thoughts on Internet. Mostly about my ideal Internet and knowledge sharing.
- A website’s markup (the HTML and CSS) should be able to be understood. Far too many pages are completely incomprehensible when you look at their source. I want to learn things, and get an insight into the page’s maker when I right click > view page source.
- Links should be descriptive; link shorteners are awfullllllll.
- Websites should never block downloading images and other elements, but it’s something I see so much now.
- ISPs should always provide free webspace.
- There should be WAY better free tools for site making—every OS and browser should have them built-in.
- Programs that run in your browser are kinda handy (Google Docs/Drive, for example), but most websites should not be these!
- Pop-up messages asking me to subscribe to your newsletter :/ Remind me of the ol’ splash screen days, though I can’t even remember why those were considered annoying anymore.
- Internet is about sharing information, distributing information. This Internet seems to be about hoarding and controlling information :(
- Wikipedia should be much more inclusive.
- We are sticking our toe into an Internet that is just a bunch of corporate intranets battling for your attention and sabotaging you internet usage outside (and inside) their boxes.
- Why are all UIs so awful and tablet focused? Fuck hamburgers. Fuck every UI improvement which seems to hide everything behind more and more clicks.
- I suspect that the Internet I’m all nostalgic for was actually mostly white dudes though.
- Pretty sure if books were invented now, libraries would be illegal.
Only solution I have to this is help people make websites. I’m slowly planning a basic HTML/CSS workshop, which I hope gets people playing with websites and gives them enough basic info to teach themselves further.
Also I’m redo-ing my own site so it’ll be a bit more fun~
I really wish my address was a .net instead of a .com. Maybe I’ll have both~
Tags: HTML, Rules, Sharing, Web design, Workshop