But if web sites were easier to make, more people would make them.<p>In the 1990s I had friends who literally knew nothing at all about computers but still managed to hack together their own sites with a text editor and some persistence.<p>It was so easy anyone of average and above IQ could do it.<p>Often the results were - let&#x27;s say - not that great as graphic design. But they got the job done well enough to be useful.<p>So I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s an illusion at all. I think the barriers to entry have become way too high. There&#x27;s certainly<p>If the barriers were lower, I&#x27;m not convinced we&#x27;d need FB and Tumblr and the rest <i>at all.</i>