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Can we roll the Web back to this version, so we can start afresh? I think we kind of fucked up with the way the Web turned out. Example: the 3.18 MB (9.71 MB uncompressed) it took to load this Bluesky post in a browser, despite its contents being plain text and simple images.

Happy Birthday Web 1.0 🥳 don’t let people think you’re evil or bad just because Web 2.0 ended up a corporate crock of shit

“This was widely regarded as a bad move.”

Gallery of Early Websites 1991–1995 www.webdesignmuseum.org/early-websites

Thought it was older than that

Usenet was already a swamp full of alligators, that alone was the harbinger of what was to come.