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Beware, this will be a rather long text and it is solely my own opinion I express here

Okay, another headline that might not sound too nice. But I will do my best to explain why I think that nowadays computers suck.

I should say that I’ve used computers for many years. The first one was the infamous C-64, a computer without a mouse, windows or millions of colors but with a 0,9 MHz-CPU and a tape-drive as data-storage. Well, to be honest, I only used the tapedrive on my cousins C-64. I was one of the first in my town who did buy it with the (infamous as well) 1541-floppydrive. And guess what: I had a wonderful time with it (okay, I played on it most of the time, but I was curious also and tried out the built-in basic. And the more I learnt about it, the more interesting it was. And that leads to the first issue:
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Well, what could that be? To make it short: I am (once again) frustrated about the way CSS works (or better: the way, CSS should work, but doesn’t).

No, it’s more than that, more than just frustration: While I see the usefulness of CSS I hate it!
I hate how you have to look throughout the web just to find complicated solutions for simple problems like centering elements vertically or horizontally. I hate it when setting a length of elements to 100% sometimes doesn’t work as every human being would expected and how you often have to use a fixed lengths or widths when you don’t or can’t because things do not work in another way. I hate how you have to fiddle around with floats just to do some kind of newspaper-style textfloating around images. And I especially hate people that want to tell you that tables are “old-style” and CSS-based layouts are “the holy grail”!
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