THE LOST ART OF VIEW SOURCE
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ESSAY / OPINION

The early Web taught itself in public. You saw something interesting, viewed the source, copied the trick, broke it, fixed it and put your own version online.

Modern sites can be technically inspectable while still being practically opaque beneath build systems, minified bundles and service layers. The learning path moved from "look at that page" toward documentation, frameworks and tooling.

There is value in making some things simple enough that curiosity can still cross the membrane.