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At the bottom of the page, in the footer, there's this text:

> Half-baked ideas for a better future.

Maybe the article is intentionally supposed to read like that?

https://philip.greenspun.com/writing/changed-by-web-and-webl...

What was missing from the 1990 Web? The original Web did not effectively support the one-paragraph idea. A reader who encountered a Web page containing only one paragraph would have been startled and wondered if the page had been left unfinished.

How startling would that really be? Seems like half the internet claimed to be under construction.

If you had a dialup modem, like mine, that only ever got 1-2 kilobytes per second despite being theoretically 56k, pages did sometimes stop loading in the middle without any

> If you had a dialup modem, like mine, that only ever got 1-2 kilobytes per second despite being theoretically 56k, pages did sometimes stop loading in the middle without any [cuts off]

Are you still using it?

But this isn't a one-paragraph idea, it's 10 paragraphs suggesting that there will be an idea, then one paragraph suggesting that there has been an idea.

Maybe let AI finish the article.

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