So here’s a gem I found the other day:
You give it a website and it will make it “look like it was made by a 13-year-old in 1996.” It’s a pretty fun little tool and my blog looks TERRIBLE. Comic Sans? Yellow background? A gif of a guy farting in the corner? Oh, god. Get me back to 2010.
Okay. So let’s think about this.
Geocities started in 1994 and was a pretty big deal because it allowed normal people to create websites (this was, of course, Web 1.0 and the website would soon morph to blog) without knowing much about code… or, as it turns out, web design. Geocities is a joke now because of the terrible graphics and stupid gimmicky gifs that littered pages. Check out Internet Archaeology for an interesting take on archiving that stuff.
So now the cool blog to have is tumblr. WordPress isn’t really “hip” with the college-aged crowd. Tumblr seems to be where there computer literate kids go while blogspot is also getting a little outdated.
But here’s a thought: in 20 years, when I’m 40, I’ll be looking at the tumblr I made thinking “oh, god. Get me back to 2030.” It almost makes me wish that everything we do on the internet isn’t archived. For example, there will hopefully be a time when I look at these Photoshop prompts and think “I was so terrible with that program. Thank god I have cs53 and know what I’m doing now.”  Isn’t that crazy?!
