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Rediscovering the Small Web
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Re: Rediscovering the Small Web
#92I had this the other day when I was reading about the origin of the word 'bear'. I found this page: https://charlierussellbears.com/LinguisticArchaeology.html This is anecdotal, and I'm not making a "then vs. now" argument - but there was something about the exchange that I found reminicent of this 'old web', and totally devoid from the way people communicate nowadays. I can't put my finger on it - but on what social…
Hacker News perhaps.
Re: Rediscovering the Small Web
#93Related: http://tilde.club/
> tilde.club is not a social network it is one tiny totally standard unix computer that people respectfully use together in their shared quest to build awesome web pages
And the story behind it: https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-...
Re: Rediscovering the Small Web
#94If 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…
> As for RSS, well, as HN custom insists, I am also > commenting to plug my own fraidyc.at. See, you knew it was > here. This is quite a nice implementation and the back story is cool. I have also been thinking about this for some time, but what I want to achieve is decentralized RSS feeds. Servers go down over time, are blocked or suffer some other issue. I want to be able to help keep alive the content I consume, p…
Have a look at the beaker browser suggested in the parent post. It uses the hypercore protocol (new name for the dat protocol), which allows one to build collections of data, update them, and have them mirrored over a DHT, kind of like IPFS does. You can choose to contribute to mirroring some content you like, if you want to :)
Of course, ideally, the websites themselves would publish articles on the hypercore network, and be the source of trust here, but I don't see why you couldn't do it from RSS feeds.
I am not sure whether the data is content-addressed on hypercore? If so, multiple people could archive the same content to make sure it is identical, and still enjoy the benefits of distributed hosting :)
More about hyperdrive/hypercore: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23180572
Re: Rediscovering the Small Web
#95If 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…
Interesting! These sites reminds me of the various scenes that flourished around the nettime mailing list and the net.art movement[1]; and it also reminds me of the Web 2.0 days when microblogging sites such as Jaiku and others where popular.
[1] If anyone wants to know more about it, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net.art
Re: Rediscovering the Small Web
#96I've been actually posting in a few telnet BBS, as well as some SSH forums as of late. I love the small web. I love the freedom of anonymity. I grew up in the 2000s and also got into web design through notepad and hand written HTML. I do have a squarespace website but I'm thinking of just going to neocities and start over with some plain HTML one.
Re: Rediscovering the Small Web
#97The author makes a distinction between the "commercial web" and "small web" but I can't help but wonder if some overlap is possible. I've recently been tasked with building a website for a small organic food distributor in Oregon. I don't think the traditional image heavy "commercial web" fits well with their company culture and image but am struggling to find examples of "small web" commercial websites to show them…
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Re: Rediscovering the Small Web
#98The author makes a distinction between the "commercial web" and "small web" but I can't help but wonder if some overlap is possible. I've recently been tasked with building a website for a small organic food distributor in Oregon. I don't think the traditional image heavy "commercial web" fits well with their company culture and image but am struggling to find examples of "small web" commercial websites to show them…
https://www.lingscars.com
Re: Rediscovering the Small Web
#99J.K. Rowling is releasing a new novel chapter by chapter called "The Ickabog" on a website [1]. I went there, fully expecting some over-engineered and productized site, and was pleasantly surprised that it's a very clean, static site: webmobile optimized, light svg graphics, clean markup. No bullshit, just focused on the text and reading. Hoping that more authors take this route when releasing stuff for the web. [1]…
Indeed! This is a very pleasant site. And very happy to see no analytics/tracking. Excellent example, thanks.
Re: Rediscovering the Small Web
#100If 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…
I just wanted to say that I love fraidyc.at and use it daily.
Thank you so much for all the hard work.