I agree, and this article doesn't even make a remotely compelling case that the web does suck. It's all just "back in my day we had to walk uphill both ways and we liked it".

Seriously, they lead with "it was better when there were no search engines and you had to trawl through a directory". I'm old enough to remember that. It wasn't better. It sucked.

They even list phpBB style forums as a positive thing. I mean sure I guess they're better than StackOverflow and Discourse if you like clicking "next page" 84 times to find the solution to your problem.

Their spectacles are so rose-tinted I'm surprised they can see through them at all.