Druegan

Ok.. I gotta start with "I'm old" as a disclaimer. I remember the internet before AOL opened for business. I still mourn "Eternal September"..
 
That said, "modern" web design has gone totally to crap, even for a fair number of "major" or "successful" websites.
 
And frankly, I blame the social and economic parasitism that is "Marketing" for most of it. (Although yes, I am very biased there too.)
I hate websites that look like an overblown television commercial. Or some Yuppie Jackoff's PowerPoint presentation. I hate ridiculous amounts of dynamic content. I absolutely *despise* any form of pop-up, for any reason.. web designers should have gotten that garbage out of their system in the 90's, from the utter trainwreck that ensued when people first started figuring out how it was done..
 
Autoplay video is just as annoying today as embedded website music was ages ago.
 
What I want in a website is just clean, efficient communication. Because that's what the internet is.. it's a communication medium. I go visit a website, any website, because I want either information, or a product, and the more garbage you make me go through to get to that information or product, the greater your chances of me spouting a lot of profanity and going somewhere else.
 
I don't buy products or services based off of marketing wankery, because it basically exists to misrepresent something inherently substandard as something actually *good*.
 
The Internet used to be a cool place. You could just chill, talk to people, and learn things. Like, have intelligent conversations in a public access unmoderated chat.. Mindblowing in the 'net of today.
 
Now, you need a veritable arsenal of advertising blockers and script blockers just to get anything done. Websites have 2, maybe 3 scripts related to the actual content on them, and another 30 that are just wasting my bandwidth and cpu cycles to try to turn me into a product to sell to parasites who are going to waste more of my resources trying to shove garbage I have no interest in down my throat..
 
It's all gone to hell, man, it's all gone to hell... *traumatized pleading*

I do as well
 
blocky text & games were non existant
green monitors
printer paper ribbons
 
why web you ask becuz the biggies are makin it easior then eva brah, click n drag brah.
 

I completely agree. I want something efficient. When I pay $10 a month for a website, I don't want it to be "stunning". Of course it should look good, but it doesn't need to look like it is made with powerpoint animations and have smooth transitions just to scroll in an image. For example this website has everything you need on the front page and has very simple navigation on the top, and works great in mobile and desktop. I'm so glad I found someone who understands.

Ok.. I gotta start with "I'm old" as a disclaimer. I remember the internet before AOL opened for business. I still mourn "Eternal September"..
 
That said, "modern" web design has gone totally to crap, even for a fair number of "major" or "successful" websites.
 
And frankly, I blame the social and economic parasitism that is "Marketing" for most of it. (Although yes, I am very biased there too.)
I hate websites that look like an overblown television commercial. Or some Yuppie Jackoff's PowerPoint presentation. I hate ridiculous amounts of dynamic content. I absolutely *despise* any form of pop-up, for any reason.. web designers should have gotten that garbage out of their system in the 90's, from the utter trainwreck that ensued when people first started figuring out how it was done..
 
Autoplay video is just as annoying today as embedded website music was ages ago.
 
What I want in a website is just clean, efficient communication. Because that's what the internet is.. it's a communication medium. I go visit a website, any website, because I want either information, or a product, and the more garbage you make me go through to get to that information or product, the greater your chances of me spouting a lot of profanity and going somewhere else.
 
I don't buy products or services based off of marketing wankery, because it basically exists to misrepresent something inherently substandard as something actually *good*.
 
The Internet used to be a cool place. You could just chill, talk to people, and learn things. Like, have intelligent conversations in a public access unmoderated chat.. Mindblowing in the 'net of today.
 
Now, you need a veritable arsenal of advertising blockers and script blockers just to get anything done. Websites have 2, maybe 3 scripts related to the actual content on them, and another 30 that are just wasting my bandwidth and cpu cycles to try to turn me into a product to sell to parasites who are going to waste more of my resources trying to shove garbage I have no interest in down my throat..
 
It's all gone to hell, man, it's all gone to hell... *traumatized pleading*