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Interfaces have improved because the scope of the thing has grown.

I learnt HTML in 1995, I think shortly before HTML 2 was released. It was tiny back then. Using anything other than a text editor was inconceivable (I doubt there was any tooling back then). CSS and JavaScript didn't even exist. We had CGI for emailing form content, but most of the web was static.

By 1998 I was convinced that every app ever would be online. Today I've come full circle, avoiding web dev like the plague (too many tools) and stick with desktop and phone apps.



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