# The Japanese web is delightful

> Japan shows us that we should have stopped at 1.0.

The Japanese web feels like it stopped at 1.0 and it's a delight.

Remember when webpages were simply dense information-delivery mechanisms? I present: the [Iwate Prefectural Library](https://www.library.pref.iwate.jp/index.html). I mean _come on_.

I only just realised in pasting that link, that's even an old-school `index.html`! None of this fancy-dancy _just end with a directory path_ nonsense.

Here's the [Morioka City Marathon](https://iwate-morioka-city-marathon.jp): just a colourful page, full of information.

Our web got so bland; everything just this homogenous lump of rounded-corner pastel. I don't know how the Japanese have held on to theirs. A function of isolation, I suppose?

Either way, I'm envious.