Re:How I do my computing
by bane on Sunday May 17, 2015 @12:22PM
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You'll notice though that the main documentation on github is basically just what we already had in the web 1.0 days and not much more.
We had most of those other things in the web 1.0 days too.
Here's a directory hierarchy that's just as navigable as github's
ftp://modland.com/
in the old days, ftp sites used to even have some kind of readme that browsers would autoload and put at the top of the directory list as documentation.
Graphs have been back-end generated and served in web 1.0 days as well and just inlined as <img> tags.
It was basically the same, with less control of look-and-feel, but about as usable and hundreds of times quicker. Responsiveness and accessibility just sort of "happened".
We had most of those other things in the web 1.0 days too.
Here's a directory hierarchy that's just as navigable as github's
ftp://modland.com/
in the old days, ftp sites used to even have some kind of readme that browsers would autoload and put at the top of the directory list as documentation.
Graphs have been back-end generated and served in web 1.0 days as well and just inlined as <img> tags.
It was basically the same, with less control of look-and-feel, but about as usable and hundreds of times quicker. Responsiveness and accessibility just sort of "happened".