Wow. It's hard to believe this novella was written in 1909. The imagination and insight of the author is remarkable. It reads as an account of a dystopic future that we are now more and more living in the present.

Thank you for sharing this.

Different strokes for different folks, I guess. I hated that the UI was just rectangles in a grid with a single fill color. Few icons. The customization options were really poor from what I can remember, making it so that everyone's UI looked almost identical.

To be fair, I was getting seriously fed up by the poor software support at the same time which may have amplified my resentment.

Browser add-ons and/or userscripts may alleviate this problem if those are an option in your use case. I use Unhook (https://unhook.app/) to hide all algorithm recommendations and shorts.

That's a strange understanding of minimalism.

Yeah, on first glance, I thought it was running on a readme.md