Why has tech stagnantted so much?
>>106545366German looks so archaic.
>>106545366>>106545562Also no, tech didn't stagnate.
>>106545571It regressed.
>>106545366Oh look another thread whining about technology. Go away.
>>106545366Software developers in the consumer space took increased hardware overhead as license to get sloppier instead of push boundaries.
>>106545366Windows 98 ui/ux was shit though, KDE and GNOME were better
I can't believe Windows still looks like that in [current year]! Things have really stagnated!
>>106545663Absolutely true but that's due to "democratization" of software development so even people on the left side of the bell curve can "contribute" along with the "move fast and break things" management philosophy that priorities cranking out crap rapidly over building anything of quality. Back in the 80s, a programmer wrote a Chess game, complete with a decent AI, in 672 bytes. Not 672 megs or even 672K, 672 bytes. If developers of that level still exist, they're unappreciated and stuck in a corner somewhere working on CSS bugs in some rando company's website.Decent to excellent software development can happen but it requires strict controls over who gets to do the development, dedication to isolating them from bike shedding bosses, and a willingness to be patient. MBAbros believe first mover advantage trumps everything so that last part ends up being nearly impossible.
>>106545366It hasn't, you're just a luddite, most likely a low IQ white who can't keep up in a fast ever changing modern world and desperately wants to check out of society, similar to elves as they went extinct and insane from old age and being tired of competing with hung young men.
>>106545638Go back.
>>106545753>>106545941Your skin is the colour of poo, I'd be mad too if mine were. Go back.
>>106545723>>106545941
90's guis were peak. guis fell off in the 00's and never recovered
>>106545753Kill yourself.
>>106545753
>>106545366>why can't we be driving cars at 20,000km/h?
>>106546085Huh?
Reading this thread made me sick, the internet is dead.
>>106548536Someone said a few years ago "if cars advanced as quickly as computers, we'd be driving at 20,000km/h now."I hope he was pointing out that infinite (or even long-term) asymptotic growth is impossible, as it's a great example.
>>106548604Honestly it's not tech itself that's stagnated, it's more like the software itself that's gotten worse as tech's gotten better.
>>106545753LMAO
>>106545638Oh look, another midwit loyal to the corporate cartels who doesn't know shit about science or technology.
>>106549898go back to redddit "anarchrist"
>>106545366I don't know, probably lack of competition. But then Google is competition and their offering is just crap.
>>106545366>WhyWe have this thread every weekhttps://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Stagnation>>106545571>noIt did.
>>106549972>society could somewhat improve>holy fucking reddit!
>>106545987comfy
>>106545366
>>106545753ouch
>>106545366I wish. Stagnation would be far more desirable than what is actually happening. That being turning into utter shit.
Indians didn't have computers back in the day like they do today
>>106552985This I'd rather just use late 2010s tech.
>>106551447>thread about windows 98 ui>"holy industrial society!"do you not see how overdramatic that sounds?
>>106553266That's windows 2000 zoom zoom.
>>106553772same difference retardits snca
>>106553772>thats windows 2000why do shitlenials always get hung up on such small details
>>106553893>>106553911they're completely different operating systems, you shouldn't even be allowed near a computer if you don't know the difference.
>>106554761i was obviously referring to user interfaces, not oses specifically senile retarddid you inherit your parents lead poisoning or something?
If Microsoft still made OSes like Windows 2000, NT4 and 3.11. I would still be using Windows but I guess they focus on AI, cloud and subscriptions.
>>106545366we centralized innovation to one tiny part of the world and allowed them to spoonfeed us with whatever they wanted.
>>106555077The interface doesn't look the same either, get your eyes checked.
>>106555425really now? what are the differences then?
>>106555818The colours are different, the navigation bar is thinner, the icons are different.
>>106555425the differences are meaninglessit wasnt even about that in the first place, it was about how people instinctively nostalgianigger about meaningless shit
>>106555989The differences are noticeable, and if it wasn't about that in the first place why bring it up to begin with?>it was about how people instinctively nostalgianigger about meaningless shitSomething you will never understand because you weren't around then, or you do understand and you're just a shill for the current thing(tm).
>>106545366Regressed, not stagnated. You can tell because people like OP keep posting the Windows 9X UI as an example of what good tech is. I was actually alive for back when people still daily drove 9X, in its day people thought it looked ugly compared to what Mac OS had (even pre-Mac OS X) but put up with it anyway because of software compatibility and not wanting to be price gouged by Apple. Now in our brave new world, the post-Windows 8 UI's are so ass that the old gray boxes of Windows 9X look good to us.Why has UI regressed so much? Because you will buy the computer anyway because you need it, so why put in the time and money to develop a good looking and easy to use interface when people are fine with looking at shit that 20 years ago would barely pass for placeholders?
>>106556065When I saw the beta screenshots for Windows 8, I thought the flat icons, flat taskbar, title bar and shit were actually placeholders. That says it all.
>>106556092I'm more mad about what they've done with Microsoft Outlook or whatever it's called now after the Office 365 rebrand simply because I'm stuck with it for work and can't modify it so I'm just stuck with its awful interface. The old icons were already not great, but the new icons are just lines and occasionally there's a bit of color. And in some cases you have to stare at them a bit to figure out what the skeuomorph is because everything is just boxes. They might as well have used kanji for the icons because the result would have been similar. They really don't teach you shit at graphic design school anymore, or maybe they just teach you to implement whatever stupid idea comes to you first which is why we get all these useless UI's that try to look sleek but are borderline unusable.
