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Re: Rediscovering the Small Web

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Post by ObsoleteNerd »

stavros wrote: post #9

I've been thinking about this for ages, and I want my own contribution to this to be a simple webring service. If you're unfamiliar with the concept, a webring was a simple circular linked list. You had a link on your knitting-themed site to the "next knitting-themed site", that site had a link to the next one, etc. To join the ring, you just emailed someone and said "hey, I, too, have a knitting-themed site, can you…

I'm working on a webring type project right now, with a central site that pulls in RSS feeds of all the ring members to create a central news feed (HN style interface), to help with discoverability too.

You add the webring to your site, allowing your visitors to discover more sites you specifically like, then you can opt-in to have your RSS feed fed back to the main site.

Re: Rediscovering the Small Web

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x3blah wrote: post #35

"The Commercial Web (of Marketing) There has always been a place for commerce and marketing on the web." Not really true as I remember it. The web opened up to the public in 1993. There was no commerce and marketing in the beginning. Even by 1996 while commerce and marketing may have existed, e.g., Amazon founded in 1995, its place was in the background. As I rememember the early web, the foreground, the "starting po…

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Re: Rediscovering the Small Web

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Post by gonehome »

h0p3 wrote: post #70
gonehome wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure I understand the special fish or the Tiddlywikis - what are they? I clicked around, but I don't get it. Fraidyc.at is very cool though - I remember seeing that a while back and think I'll likely end up using it at some point when I have some time to play with it.

Hi zalberico, I'm h0p3. I can't say I get it either. My wiki is a place to store stuff and to tell myself linked stories. Maybe it is a hypertext castle, a rabbithole, a garden, a mind map, an exobrain, a Zettelkasten, an existential mirror or conduit. Despite significant effort, I'm not sure how to describe it well enough. It's a site I like to see. It's where I do muh thinkin, I tellyawhat. Also, Fraidyc.at works w…

Haha thanks - it is definitely cool looking.

Re: Rediscovering the Small Web

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Post by matheusmoreira »

Related: http://contemporary-home-computing.org/RUE/

> It isn’t a particularly sophisticated way to show emotions or manifest an attitude, but still so much more interesting and expressive than what is available now:

> First of all, because it is an expression of a dislike, when today there is only an opportunity to like.

> Second, the statement lays outside of any scale or dualism: the dislike is not the opposite of a like.

> Third: it is not a button or function, it works only in combination with another graphic or word. Such a graphic needed to be made or found and collected, then placed in the right context on the page—all done manually.

> I am mainly interested in early web amateurs because I strongly believe that the web in that state was the culmination of the Digital Revolution.

Re: Rediscovering the Small Web

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Post by gonehome »

livatlantis wrote: post #37
gonehome wrote: post #26

This is a great post and makes me miss this type of content. I created a subreddit recently to help with the discovery problem and posted it on HN earlier this week. Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23287286 Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/hnblogs/ It’s been going well so far, only a small solution to a big problem, but it’s been fun to discover a lot of interesting blogs from people in this communit…

Excellent! Joined, thank you!

Thanks! I think your site is awesome, it's exactly the kind of thing I think of, when I think of the best of what the internet can be.

I'm a fan.

[Edit]: I also caught a tiny typo:

> "But the web is not always "profit-oriented" and it certainly does not need be "user-centric" (and I say this as a UX consultant)."

I think you wanted "does not need to be"

I created a PR for you: https://github.com/parimalsatyal/neu/pull/2

Re: Rediscovering the Small Web

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Post by dvtrn »

h0p3 wrote: post #70
gonehome wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure I understand the special fish or the Tiddlywikis - what are they? I clicked around, but I don't get it. Fraidyc.at is very cool though - I remember seeing that a while back and think I'll likely end up using it at some point when I have some time to play with it.

Hi zalberico, I'm h0p3. I can't say I get it either. My wiki is a place to store stuff and to tell myself linked stories. Maybe it is a hypertext castle, a rabbithole, a garden, a mind map, an exobrain, a Zettelkasten, an existential mirror or conduit. Despite significant effort, I'm not sure how to describe it well enough. It's a site I like to see. It's where I do muh thinkin, I tellyawhat. Also, Fraidyc.at works w…

Hello h0p3, I modeled much of my tiddlywiki (not public, used for life stuff more than a public repo of thoughts) after yours, and greatly enjoy your writing. Just figured you ought to hear that!

Re: Rediscovering the Small Web

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Post by httpsterio »

kickscondor wrote: post #12

If you're interested in recent innovations on this front: (rather than just retreading the same Web as before) * Beaker ( https://beakerbrowser.com ) the peer-to-peer browser just released their beta release - and it has some exciting features. Particularly the built-in editor, meaning you can edit, serve and read your pages all from the browser. (Blogging in Beaker is as simple as visiting: hyper://a8e9bd0f4df60ed52…

Thanks for this post. I checked Fraidycat out and it solves many issues that I consider broken with social medias these days. Your personal website made me incredibly nostalgic and almost depressed, longing back to a simpler time in my life.

Both of your projects will serve as inspiration for myself. Your personal site especially as it feels creative and liberated, things I strive for in my personal life.

Thank you.

Re: Rediscovering the Small Web

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Post by kickscondor »

httpsterio wrote: post #77
kickscondor wrote: post #12

If you're interested in recent innovations on this front: (rather than just retreading the same Web as before) * Beaker ( https://beakerbrowser.com ) the peer-to-peer browser just released their beta release - and it has some exciting features. Particularly the built-in editor, meaning you can edit, serve and read your pages all from the browser. (Blogging in Beaker is as simple as visiting: hyper://a8e9bd0f4df60ed52…

Thanks for this post. I checked Fraidycat out and it solves many issues that I consider broken with social medias these days. Your personal website made me incredibly nostalgic and almost depressed, longing back to a simpler time in my life. Both of your projects will serve as inspiration for myself. Your personal site especially as it feels creative and liberated, things I strive for in my personal life. Thank you.

Oh don’t be depressed - my messy site took five years to make and you would be disgusted at the guts of it. And besides, there are many many days still in the future - I just flicked through my calendar and couldn’t seem to reach the end - so there is time to unlock more for you. Your site looks good, so I think you are underestimating yourself, which is lying Sami - it’s lying.
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