Hacker News post about current Web design trends

May 22, 2013 Hacker News post
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5749714
that pointed to a 2011 article titled
Are Current Web Design Trends Pushing Us Back to 1999?

The top rated comment in that Hacker New thread sounds like me. My emphasis added:

I'll out myself as a luddite:

I hate the modern web.

I hate nearly everything about it other than the fat high-speed link I use to connect to it.

I hate the animation, the video, the ever more insidious and unblock-able pop-ups.

I hate that technical posts that used to be just some text I could quickly skim are now often videos I have to watch (I'm looking at you MSDN Channel 9!).

I absolutely hate video. It's a terrible medium for communicating information to a person who is trying to multitask. It should be strictly reserved for porn and other entertainment.

I hate Flash. I hate how Flash ads sit there and suck up my battery life.

I hate Javascript that does the same. If I've just got my browser open to a page and I'm working in Emacs, Safari should be sitting at 0.0 (maybe 0.1)% CPU usage, not waking up my CPU constantly to do whatever shit it thinks it needs to do.

Text is great.

Civilization pretty much peaked when we figured out how to blast text from the other side of the planet to your screen in 150-200 milliseconds.

It's been downhill from there.

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