&gt;We need to remember that at its core a web page is simple. That&#x27;s the beauty of it. And when you publish your own HTML to a server that you control; that&#x27;s fucking powerful. Autonomy and independence are central to the web. We can&#x27;t forget that.<p>I absolutely agree.<p>People seem to forget that the fundamental nature of the web hasn&#x27;t changed. Facebook hasn&#x27;t destroyed the web, javascript and that framework you hate haven&#x27;t destroyed the web, advertising hasn&#x27;t destroyed the web (arguably, the web has destroyed advertising), the NSA hasn&#x27;t destroyed the web (yet.) You can still open up the text editor of your choice and write some HTML and put it on a server. That still works, and it will probably always work - human readable, human writable, human accessible content. You can still write it all by hand if you want, you don&#x27;t have to know how to code, you&#x27;re not forced to conform to arbitrary standards, or use proprietary software.<p>In the end, no matter how much abstraction modern developers pile on to make it look and act like &quot;legitimate&quot; application programming, the web is just HTML, CSS, javascript and some embedded content, probably images, possibly of cats. Sometimes, in the midst of how homogeneous and corporatized the web can appear, I think it helps to be reminded of how revolutionary it still is because of its fundamental simplicity and accessibility.