(This is Not the final version of this text and this article contains issues.)
(However, it should not be difficult to follow.)
(Disclaimer: I'm a young-ancient dinosaur, so I'm biased, but I have my reasons.)
The reason why I made this site
is due to the fact that we seem too forget too much of past
technology,
passing it off as “obsolete”,
while there was nothing ever (inherently) wrong with it. It may have just needed some tinkering or bugfixing.
Modern websites are just plain
boring. (This one kind of is too, because I'm not done with it yet
:P)
They don't have any personality anymore, and everything feels
the same.
Another
contributing factor is that companies like Google, Facebook and
Twitter dominate the public sphere,
and sites like Blogspot are
too standardized.
People don't really make their own personalized
sites from scratch anymore.
I would even say that it's become too
easy to make a site nowadays. (The same goes for a lot of other
things, but we'll touch on that in "Modern software development is killing us")
The much bigger reason I made this site is to fight for
a bigger cause and prove the fact that, just because you can doesn't
mean you should.
A lot of modern tech is cool, but it's just not
fun to use or experiment with anymore.
Even as recently as a couple
years ago, tech gadgets where a lot more fun to mess around with and
weren't as intrusive on our lives as they are now,
not just with
tech nerds, but with the average person too. It's just gotten worse
year after year.
Before I get pitchforks at me, I'm not
advocating that we hold back necessary technological advancement
just
for the hell of it. Far from it, big breakthroughs in medicine,
energy and transportation for example are important.
I'm
mainly talking about consumer technology,
instead of making fun
and useful things to use, tech and social media companies are more
concerned with
making use addicted to technology.
Instead
of us using technology to help us, it's slowly starting to replace us
and make us dependent on it under our noses.
I want to return to a
time where we were more balanced with technology.
As human beings
we have the power to create almost anything, but with great power
comes great responsibility.
We need to learn to limit ourselves
for our own sake.
This may not sound all that important now, but
in about 5 or 10 years time it will.
(Here's an idea, why don't we combine new and old technology instead of just tossing it out so to speak?)
This
mentality of “faster faster faster, upgrade upgrade upgrade”
is ruining the consumer tech industry.
Indoctrinating people with
the belief that the newest tech is always the best and that upgrading
is a necessity or you'll be “left behind”
and
companies using Planned
Obsolescence to
fool their costumers into believing that the products they bought
from them are obsolete and that they must buy new ones.
In the
future by the time I'm 25 will we have 8K televisions? What in gods
name is the point of that??
I could see if this was 2007 and
jumping from 480p to 1080p was a huge step up in quality, but as the
years go on these
advancements become more and more minuscule,
like jumping from 4K to 5K. These aren't really noticeable upgrades
unless you REALLY
pay
attention,
but most people won't.
If we are going to create
things like this, give people TIME
to
enjoy the technology that's already out there instead of
forcing
new (and most of the time useless) stuff upon us every 2 days!
Bigger isn't always better (or useful) folks.
It
seems like the more we advance consumer tech, the more sterile and
bland things become for everyone,
and most people don't even
realize that they're being sold a lesser version of something.
The
lesson here is that we need to limit and balance our tech
and if
you can see what I mean, maybe like minded people can band together
to fight for this cause.
The trick to fighting anything is to not
become compliant and stick to your guns and gut, no matter how
enticing it is to give up
or think that what you're doing is
pointless.
Keep in mind this is coming from someone born in 2003 :P