In big cultural concepts like music or fashion, things have a way of coming around full circle. Max Böck is pretty sure someday grunge will come back as a hot new sample, and at some point kids might think frosted hair tips are totally cool.
When I look at some of the trends on the web today, I wonder if we’re at that point yet. I wonder if we’re ready to revisit some of the ideas of the early web again.
Probably not in design – I’m afraid dancing-baby.gif is gone for good. But some of the broader ideas from back then are picking up a second wind lately, and I like it.
The changes include more server side rendering, no-code tools ala Frontpage and Dreamweaver, and personal websites independent from Medium, Blogger, etc.
Bonus: Here is the adafruit.com website from 2006, fetched from oldweb.today:
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