Posted on May 3, 2007
The Internet has gone through a lot of growing pains, especially the use of mark-up for information representation. HTML, when it was originally created, was designed to output simple items, such as paragraphs, lists, and tables, for information exchange. With the Internet’s ARPANet roots, that totally makes sense since ARPANet wasn’t conceived with the notion that roughly thirty years later, this would be used for private and commercial usage with rich multimedia .
Over that time of growth, web design went through a lot of visual growing pains. People kept pushing the envelope while others created some very eye-catching designs that fail the usability test, even if it DOES validate.