Building a website like it's 1999
I bet you some people got really annoyed when written language was standardized and people couldn&#x27;t simply spell things willy nilly using &quot;their creativity&quot;. Every time you read a book you are looking at thousands of years of typographical standardization, but you don&#x27;t lament the fact that they &quot;all look the same&quot;. In fact, if you took a book out of the library shelf and saw it was written in a weird font (i.e. papyrus) and with weird formatting, unless it was poetry you would put it right back and never touch it again. Same happens when you read a scientific paper and you see it&#x27;s clearly written with MS Word.<p>This fetishization of the &quot;old web&quot; initially works when you&#x27;re just browsing some terse blog or personal web page from people you don&#x27;t even know, but the moment you want to actually search for information on the web this style of websites immediately becomes annoying. There&#x27;s a reason why Wikipedia has kept basically the same layout since forever, because it works. If I want to know about medieval history I can navigate Wikipedia in a matter of seconds. On the other hand, good luck navigating through the same information from the personal blog of some retired medieval professor. And what if you want to switch topic and read stuff from another blog with a completely different layout? God help you.