> As a web developer, I am thinking again about my experience with the mobile web on the day after the storm

In some villages, where plenty of stone is available, people used it for everything - roof slabs, pillars, walls, flooring, water storage bowls etc. Also, villages which had plenty of wood around, they used it for everything.

As techies, we say there is an app for everything, or there is a web-technology for everything. When you have a hammer in hand, everything looks like a nail.

We also generally have large screens, faster processors, more memory, faster internet, etc.