primitiveness

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Web 1.0, as we think of it now, consisted of an endless maze of linked, static Web sites: garish, goofy things, often, limited by the slowness of pre-broadband Internet and the primitiveness of Web browser tech.

From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2015

Human behavior, in all its predictably irrational glory, is still the culmination of a complexity that dwarfs the relative primitiveness of the bacterium.

From Salon • Oct. 15, 2015

The major reason for the games' relative primitiveness is that the country's video-game industry didn't take off until the mid-2000s.

From Slate • May 26, 2010

The original Prince of Persia, which came out in 1989, now seems almost touching in its primitiveness, closer to Pong than to Gungrave or Steel Battalion.

From New York Times • May 22, 2010

Here, on the borders of death, life follows an amazingly simple course, it is limited to what is most necessary, all else lies buried in gloomy sleep;—in that besides our primitiveness and our survival.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque