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Bring back the HTML tag! You can't have a good blog without it!
Serious now. I miss the blogosphere. It was just a bunch of casual writers messing with their HTML (this was before CSS), writing whatever the fuck they wanted, and linking other blogs that they read. One of my favs was literally some guy making shit up about his own life, you could see the bullshit from a distance but it was enjoyable bullshit. Another was poking fun at other blogs.
I also miss being able to fully load a simple page with a 56k connection. My connection nowadays is orders of magnitude faster, then why the hell things are so slower?
Because of all the JavaScript. I swear like 90% of the Web nowadays is just JavaScript. Look into the NoScript add-on. It allows you selectively block (or allow) JS scripts on any given webpage/site/etc.
It actually makes it SO much faster to load webpages. Plus the privacy & security benefits are pretty nice too. ๐ :)
I've used NoScript for some time, but it breaks a lot of sites - because those 99% of bloat are all intertwined with the 1% of actual content. So even if I'm aware of the privacy, security, and speed benefits, I ended ditching it. (Actually I just deactivated it, but it's still there.)
I, and most people in fact, only use a handful of sites these days. And most of the sites you only really need to block the most common tracking scripts and the site totally works fine and loads noticeably faster.
And you only have to do it once, not every time. It might take a bit of time the first go around but then every time after that it's out-of-sight-out-of-mind most of the time in my experience.