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:
Adafruit publishes a wide range of writing and video content, including interviews and reporting on the maker market and the wider technology world. Our standards page is intended as a guide to best practices that Adafruit uses, as well as an outline of the ethical standards Adafruit aspires to. While Adafruit is not an independent journalistic institution, Adafruit strives to be a fair, informative, and positive voice within the community – check it out here: adafruit.com/editorialstandards
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