Meh, the Web is still mainly entertainment as far as I'm concerned...
then again, I don't like the cloud computing paradigm at all. I like
having my applications, documents and media on a local hard drive
where I can access them whenever and can still get work done even when
my Internet connection is acting wonky.
That said, I think my introduction to the web was with Internet
Explorer on Windows 95 or 98, though I've been using Firefox since
version 0.8. It's by far the heaviest app on my computer and between
it and the stuff I only have installed because I need them to use
Firefox, it accounts for like half of my installed system's disc
usage. Would love to switch to a text-only browser and ditch the GUI
altogether, but there's no truly modern text-only web browser I'm
aware of and the one's I've tried made even something as simple as
checking my Gmail(even in Firefox, I prefer the HTML version of Gmail
to the JavaScript version) a major pain. even switching to a
lightweight graphical browser would be nice, but best I can tell, all
the lightweight graphical browsers achieve their lightweight through
lacking features that are hard to do without in this era where
apparently no one knows how to format a page or create a web form with
plain, old HTML... not to mention that Firefox and chromium are
probably the only Browsers that have been thoroughly tested with Orca.
It really is enough to make one wish they had the programming know how
and dedication to write their own browser or fork and build upon an
existing one.
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