Next Gen Websites

I'm here for a minute, due to someone spamming my DMs here and setting off an email. I've had a brain worm working for the past year; what are the next generations of websites going to look like, maybe 10 years in the future?

When this all started 30 something odd years ago, websites were black text on a white screen. We got images, scripts, styles, all the things that made the web feel easier to use. Prettier too! That being said, we've had the "blocks-on-a-wall" thing going for a while.

Personally I've been trying to mash together things like Three.js, Vue.js v3, and a few other web frameworks to make a web environment built for VR. In the next 10 years I really think VR is going to become more lightweight, compact, powerful, and widespread.

And no I don't mean some silly video game playground like what Meta does. Think more like the 2008 Iron Man movie's holograms, where the website's information is something that exists around you. If it's a gallery you're looking at, the images form a cylinder around you that you can spin with your hand or move up / down for newer / older. Things like that. Anything that reduces the amount of clicking you have to do to get where you want to go.

I realize the example I gave sounds very niche and relegated to VR almost exclusively, but it's something.

In a more realistic view, I think the first things to come are privacy. EU has been getting very loud about what companies / websites are allowed to do. I really hope all that crypto nonsense stays in the background. There's always going to be a push to make computing more efficient for the end user.

All that being said, the internet feels more dead than ever; like most of the content in front of you is just AI generated garbage. Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.

I've gotten out of webdev almost entirely, myself. I maintain a small blog with some thoughts on games and books and whatnot but I've gotten out of developer circles entirely. Healthcare IT for me, for now.

I'm not sure where the internet's going to go from here, but I will say I don't like where it's at right now. I agree that the internet feels dead, it feels like the entire internet has been reduced down to 5 or 6 major companies, and everything else is AI garbage or niche sites struggling to hang on. It's a real shame compared to how it felt 20 or even 10 years ago.

I think there's a lot of room for VR in everyday use, but it's not going to catch on popularly until the equipment required for it becomes less bulky and corny looking. I bought a Meta Quest dirt cheap a few months back and it's fun to play around with but uncomfortable to wear and really a novelty. The most fun I had with it were some interactive educational things. That's where I think stuff like AR can fill the gap until the VR tech catches up - stuff like Pokemon Go has proven that. Think interactive museum exhibits, virtual battlefields where you move around in the space, stuff like that. I have a passion for history and I've been thinking about ways to combine tech and history, and this kind of thing is where I think I've landed. Tons of room for tech in education in general, especially with how schools have pushed computer sinto the classroom the last decade. I think there's a massive untapped market there.

I think you maybe onto something there steelersrock01.

I can see those VR headsets being in all schools eventually and the students wear them to get a feel of the location or period of time they are studying. Subjects such as Georgraphy or History would benefit the most and instantly become more interesting to students.

Can you imagine studying the Vietnam war for example and you are a GI walking through the jungle. You could highlight all the different traps the Viet Cong employed and show how they hid their tunnels.

Yeah that's an amazing idea. I remember when I was young studying things in school, my biggest barrier was perspective. I was always reading the school books thinking, "Ugh what does this have to do with me. This is all ancient history."

No there are still people alive who went through some of these things. Being so young, not grasping how long life is, not recognizing the relevance of the material and how it applied to me due to it being words on a page.

But seeing history like that. Being a part of it. Not some crusty black and white TV program narrated by by the same guy who's going to talk about aliens in 2 hours on the same channel.

In regards to the internet's current state; it's a shame so many of the actual people have secluded themselves in private areas, so most of what you see on the surface is mass produced content. Think people slinking off to Discord or Telegram.