Back to the Future! A History of UIs through Trends and Mass Culture
summary
Charts a specific timeline from 1991 text‑only pages through late‑90s image/iframe/Flash experiments to 2004–2010 skeuomorphism, 2010–2014 flat design and 2015+ Material design with an explicit shift toward accessibility; attributes change to concrete causes: new devices, faster hardware, Flash deprecation and Flash end December 2020, democratized site builders, role splits (webmaster → front‑end → UI/UX) and competition; cites concrete pop‑culture artifacts (Captain Marvel promo site, lingscar.com) and details a recurring film hack trope—pen drive, misaligned alert and the "ultra secret" folder—to show cinematic inaccuracy.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 27:20In Italy we had SPLINDER!
- 40:1090/00s contamination
- 51:32Jurassic Park (1993)
- 52:37It's a UNIX system!
- 53:29Minority Report (2002)
- 54:38Iron man 2 (2010)
- 56:54Men in black 3 (2012)
- 59:50Star Wars saga
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