my take on retro web discourse is that if smartphones existed in 1998 we'd have been making mobile friendly sites. The assumption that to be truly retro, you have to design for the technology that was available back then, is just one way to approach it. if you want to get in the real mindset of it, it's about utilizing the technology that's available to you and making a site that people can enjoy in different ways.
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websites as a creative medium, not as a limitation of expression. if mobile responsive design was required back then, people would not have pushed back against it the way they do now trying to recapture a "retro" mindset.
people would be making different versions of their sites entirely for mobile so that you would have a different experience, depending on your device. That's very much frowned upon now but would have been the way that my little web community approached this at the time. I think about that a lot! I don't know if I have the energy to do that now 🥲
thank you for reading my random morning thought! I don't even know where this came from.