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<p>I would first like to point out a couple things before starting my rant,
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first of which is that I am talking about the web, <b>not</b> the internet. To
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simplify this distinction for the non-techies who might be reading this,
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the web is what you see in your browser (like this web page, unless you're
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RMS and you read this by downloading the HTML), while the internet is
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any sort of connection between two or more machines (including the web).
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Second is that there are parts I like about the web or more so being a user
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of the web, but what I'm focusing on here is mostly having to do with why I
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hate web development, not so much the web in and of itself.</p>
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<p>So, to get straight to the point, I hate aesthetics, I much prefer to focus
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on functionality and the "Does this work?" of things rather than the
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"Does this look pretty?". That's not my job, in fact, I'd argue that it's
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no one's job, developers make something functional and marketing sells the
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half-assed hurried piece of shit as if it were the most important invention
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since the print-press. But for some reason in web development people seem
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to care a lot less about functionality and a lot more about aesthetics, and
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I believe that this has to do with the fact that the web is <b>purely
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graphical</b>. Being purely graphical it gets attention from a lot of people,
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including those who pay more attention to how their tool looks than "Is
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this working correctly?". Not only that, but it's impossible for you to
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create a CLI (command-line interface), that wonderful world where people
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can stop paying attention to X and Y locations of buttons and more on if
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the damn thing works correctly.</p>
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<p>At least in fields such as C++ or even Java the focus is still a little
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more focused around functionality, but this is because both can be used to
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create plain CLI applications and are often used for that purpose. Heck,
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a lot of people even create engines, and there's no aesthetics there.
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Meanwhile, in languages such as JavaScript you can't do that, sure you can
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create an engine, but you can't create any CLI applications, can you.
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JavaScript was made to simply modify HTML from the client instead of the
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server doing it and sending it to the client, and all HTML does is markup a
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graphical environment in your browser.</p>
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<p>However, another cause I can see for this is which is more probable is that
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the web has become popular. A lot of important and valuable inventions in
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history that ended up gaining popular use lost any value they had as they
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started to be used by idiots with no respect for the pain that went into
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the damn thing and complain when they see something that looks weird or
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they run into a small little bug that they could just avoid (yet, they
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never want to contribute and fix the thing), and they end up using it to do
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the same stupid things they did before but now with the new technology. You
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need not look any further than the TV that you most likely own. That bit of
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technology was created to educate people, to send information via video to
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thousands of people, and how are we using it? To watch the Kardashians...
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If I were the creator of the TV I would want to commit suicide for creating
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such a device that allows for such content that it lowers the IQ of the
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viewer a few points every time they see it. So what happened with the web?
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Well, it became popular, and the same idiots that made the TV what it is
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today decided to start invading the new frontier that was made for creators
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and intellectuals and turn it into a place where the only thing that
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matters is 'Muh convenience!' and 'Muh entertainment!'.</p>
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<p>Now, putting that aside, I still use the web (obviously, I have a website)
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and there are still positives to the web if you know where to go to avoid
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'normies' who make into the hell-hole that it is currently. Want to know
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where those places are? Get off your Facebook and Twitter and start going
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to the less popular sites where your friends most likely don't hang out.</p>
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