Just to follow on some from what @FrodoSwaggins said: I believe our current environment threatens to topple the Internet as we know it today. Today's Internet is overly consolidated, overly complex, overly brittle. Here's a couple stats for you: in 1995, before the Web broke out, 14% of adult Americans were on the Internet. By 2000, 46% were online. Almost half. Most websites were still using pretty basic HTML and CSS even then. To me, that proves there was a lot of utility even when the tools available were quite primitive. Sites were primarily text with some images. Video was still clunky and subpar (remember RealPlayer?) and so people mostly made do with words and pictures.
This is certainly a slower, more deliberately-paced way to aggregate information, but that's the goal.
I'll put as a note here that accessibility needs to be a major element of this. A lot of modern website design is not accessible, filled with hidden elements, images without alt text, etc. By keeping it simple, it should also be straightforward to keep accessibility features front and center. I am not an expert on accessible design at all so anyone advice anyone has in that regard would be very much appreciated (and any useful links on that will surely go into the index.)
This is certainly a slower, more deliberately-paced way to aggregate information, but that's the goal.
I'll put as a note here that accessibility needs to be a major element of this. A lot of modern website design is not accessible, filled with hidden elements, images without alt text, etc. By keeping it simple, it should also be straightforward to keep accessibility features front and center. I am not an expert on accessible design at all so anyone advice anyone has in that regard would be very much appreciated (and any useful links on that will surely go into the index.)
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