... first generation web pages
The apocryphal Pablo PigCasso is cited by Tony Karp on a wonderful
web page titled Art
and the Zen of Web Sites as telling us:
Colored or textured backgrounds, weirdly colored text
or links, and a preoccupation with appearance over content are sure signs
of a "first generation" website.
One didn't have to be much of an expert at HTML in order to download a
weird background from one of the numerous "web building" sites and include
it into your own, and in that way, with one small command, make it look
as though you were actually designing your site. There was something democratic,
equalizing, in those first generation sites. Truly, everybody could do
it. Of course sadly, all too many tried, but that's just what made it interesting.
Today it would be an outright lie to tell someone that s/he could design
his/her own web site to such an extent that it would attract attention
- between a simple web page and a professionally designed web site
is an almost unbridgeable gap.
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