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?":http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/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:

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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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