There wasn’t much basis to call it crazy at the time.
For starters, HTML, CSS and JavaScript couldn’t do everything it can today.
Next depending on the year, many if not most people didn’t have broadband or fast internet. Speed was even more important than today and keeping things relatively simple made sense. Similar to Craigslist too.
It was early internet, with not as many people on the internet.
Having something clear and to make your own easily (a website) was making a really hard thing very accessible to the most amount of people. In that way it was pretty successful in getting so many people going. There weren’t a lot of places to build your own website, let alone online.
Major user growth started around or shortly after Facebook launched.
For starters, HTML, CSS and JavaScript couldn’t do everything it can today.
Next depending on the year, many if not most people didn’t have broadband or fast internet. Speed was even more important than today and keeping things relatively simple made sense. Similar to Craigslist too.
It was early internet, with not as many people on the internet.
Having something clear and to make your own easily (a website) was making a really hard thing very accessible to the most amount of people. In that way it was pretty successful in getting so many people going. There weren’t a lot of places to build your own website, let alone online.
Major user growth started around or shortly after Facebook launched.