Prefer to watch this video on YouTube directly? This way, please. Remember Geocities? The unbridled creativity and questionable colour schemes of a bygone era.
There was a time when websites existed as reflections of your personality or a shrine to your favourite band rather than carbon copies of a Facebook page or Twitter feed.
With modern browsers, we have at our fingertips so many powerful APIs and tools to build the most incredible, beautiful and wonderfully pointless websites that have ever existed, in ways that are accessible and performant like never before.
Why do all the websites today look the same? Sophie: Thank you very much. Thank you very much. It is a real honor to be here. My name is Sophie. Sophie: I have a website, localghost. And I used to have cooler hair than I do now. If you take one thing away from this talk today, let it be that. Even better. You can do with it whatever you want. In the early days of the Web, there were a lot of pages like this, right? People would build websites for their families, for bands they liked, or just personal homepages and weird things.
Ultimately, we did it because it was fun and it was a creative hobby. It was really cool, and it was a great way to connect with people. It seems like this has been lost somewhere. The beauty of a website built by a person just because they wanted to.
