On: Folk (Browser) Interfaces

[mkmk3]

>> Meanwhile, systems that are actually very simple and elegant are often presented in ways that make them look complex to laypeople.

What were you referring to here? Alt web platforms like Gopher, specific systems in web dev or different tech altogether?

[entaloneralie → mkmk3]

No, a bit more generally.

Recently someone was like "the browser is the simplest way to get a pixel drawn on the screen", this sort of thinking is what I meant here.