Just the other day my wife had an online prompt suggest she open the website in firefox. I thought, what is this, 2005? lol. Yeah, netscape, geocities, newgrounds, ebaums world, livejournal... the internet was a very different place back then.
As far as steemit goes: I figure if I can build a following, get posts with an average of 100 likes and roughly $10 payouts NOW, then I'll be pretty well set when the ui improvements come. And it seems that I'm well on my way to achieving that goal. :D