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gethly a day ago

It's like people are rediscovering CSS from 20 years ago.

efilife 13 hours ago | parent [-]

I get exactly the same feeling. People from the comments here literally gave up trying to self host a font and hotlinked to google. It's as easy as downloading the file and writing a CSS one liner. What the hell is happening?

gethly 8 hours ago | parent [-]

We, the millennials are the most tech-savvy generation because we were not born with the modern technology but we were able to have a childhood before it hit us. But when it did, in our very early teens, we got really into it and learnt a lot. We learnt the internet, the mobile phone, online games, PHP, websites, JavaScript, CSS, online forums... you name it. We invented this sh... :)

But Gen-Z, and now Gen-A even more, were born into the technology, so they never had to learn it besides as users. So they have no clue how thing work. All they know is how to push a button. So in a way, they are crippled by the comfort they were brought into from the get-go. They were never forced to build their own computer nor figure out issue with the operating system, let alone how to program something, etc...

So with each new generation, the technological literacy falls off the cliff more and more. It is not their fault, their circumstances are simply different.

Velocifyer 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

As a gen-alpha kid, i confirm that is not true.

efilife 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I just realized that you are the author of the article seemingly not knowing the proper way to do it (or maybe I am missing something), thus confirming what the above commenter said. What's wrong with just downloading the zip and then @font-face in css?

Side note: it really IS people rediscovering css from 20 years ago!

efilife 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I kinda agree, but I'm not sure. When I got into webdev, hotlinking google fonts was already a thing. I did this once or twice and then wondered how to host the file myself. One google search to get the css for it and I was done. No lifetime experience needed, just one internet search. If you are building your own website, you are googling everything already