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Fully agree with this interesting article by @jeena. The fun has gone out of surfing through the internet and discovering weird and wonderful things. Sanitisation has occurred.

jeena.net/content-is-king

jeena.netContent is King?; I was wrong about it
Alan Grant

@elperronegro @jeena One thing I wonder: even without the influence of tech giants, was much of this inevitable due to the limitations of mobile phone screens?

In the 00s I had a personal site about my travels. I learned enough HTML and CSS to set up the navigation in a way that somehow reflected how the topic was organised in my own mind. But it only worked as long as people were reading it on a fairly large screen with lots of horizontal space. On a small vertical screen it was a disaster.

@alan @jeena similar story with my 00s website. Agree about onset of mobile phone screens, we would have had to get the content readable in any case.