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Re:UX brutalism by et-al on Friday August 11, 2017 @12:01PM (#14991089)
That's an interesting idea. There's something very raw about those university.edu/department/~username pages that existed with the most basic of HTML--unstyled tables, blue anchor links, images only when you needed them, and almost no Yavascript.

That rawness, without too many attribute tags let alone CSS, is brutalist.

Re:UX brutalism by lazerwalker on Friday August 11, 2017 @03:52PM (#14993503)
Olia Lialina has a great piece about the aesthetics of "Prof. Dr. Style": http://contemporary-home-computing.org/prof-dr-style/
Re:UX brutalism by et-al on Saturday August 12, 2017 @03:44PM (#14999593)
Thanks for this link! Never knew someone gave this "style" a name. (And an apt one to boot)
Re:UX brutalism by kirkules on Friday August 11, 2017 @12:58PM (#14991878)
Btw, the university pages you mention are still extremely common, at least in mathematics-related fields
Re:UX brutalism by roywiggins on Friday August 11, 2017 @01:20PM (#14992157)
When I'm searching for info on something, if I land on a page with no styling and no multimedia beyond hypertext and images, I know I've hit something good because it's almost certainly an academic's personal page!
Re:UX brutalism by 0xffff2 on Friday August 11, 2017 @09:29PM (#14995828)
Yep, "existed" is the wrong tense. My university's entire CS and Engineering schools run on those style of pages.