That's fair. Maybe it's a nostalgia for Web 1.0, websites being ugly, but personable, that I would even offer the idea.
Re:Why haven't we replaced HTML/CSS/JS?
by FrankWilhoit on Thursday June 18, 2026 @04:41PM
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Are you thinking of things like Time Cube? Seriously, anything written 30 years ago could still be written today and would still run.
Standards are made by first-movers even if what they move is howling junk. Every technology has been immature when first brought to market. What we need to be looking at are the obstacles to maturation, which seem to be increasing.
More vaguely GeoCities, Netscape, etc., and an ability to customize all corners of the internet that were yours to your liking. Just got me thinking if it could ever come back.
Why can't you do that now with HTML and CSS and JS?
Maybe all three are, in their respective current form, good enough. Replacing them would almost certainly be a net loss.