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The Old Net is an attempt to restore vintage web browsing on vintage computers. It uses the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine API and a proxy that strips out any incompatible javascript and stitches together as many links as it can.

Gather around for tales of the Beforetimes when everything seemed brighter and more optimistic, even if the websites were basic and often stupid and sometimes downright tasteless.

So come along all you jaded old greybeards and plucky young Internet archaeologists, share what you've found out there in the patched deserts of the Internet outside of the great walled cities of the Big Web.

Not 100% sure it's the right place to post this but it also feels a lot like it 100% belongs here. So, let me know what you think ;)

I don’t know about you but when I decided I've had enough of the big bloated web, it was not just to get back to a Web that was not rotten to its core by marketing-money—and the annihilation of any notion of privacy marketing requires in order to better track everything we do so they can sell more ads. This mattered a lot to me, obviously. But it was not my sole motivation to be looking for a smaller and a more humane Web.

My other reason was to reduce my digital-waste.

Be it storage space used on the server for all the large pictures, or the energy used to make scripts run and to transmit always more volume of data between the server and the computers of any visitor.

So, without being a developer myself, I searched for ways to create a website as small and as light as possible; I searched for ways to reduce the size of the images too so they would

Like, they just showed up in my web browsing. On my feed somewhere, or on the profile of someone I talk to. For things I am specifically interested in. Gives me hope for more small sites owned by hobbyists, because if I can find them for my niche hobbies, not just for something huge like fitness or gaming in general or cooking…

Both have that aesthetic that says "I was made by someone who does not do web dev professionally." I'll be totally honest, I do actually prefer the way modern sites look, even corporate modern sites, over that, but nostalgia bias makes me accept that old-time aesthetic too. I know some posts on this community might have put a name to that, maybe neocities? I know the name and have definitely visited neocities pages, but didn't spend enough time there to really remember its aesthetic.

I might actually considering making a little site for myself then, and hooking up on a webring… I'm not much of a journaler but it could probably overlap with what people do w

In this second part of my ‘Building an IndieWeb house’ series, on the whys and hows of this blog, I’m going to go over the very basics of using the static site generator (SSG) Hugo to make a website, how to get that on the internet and the ‘syndicate elsewhere’ element of the ‘Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere’ (POSSE) concept.

This will be the post that’s the most techy of this series, and one where I do also mention specific platforms, software or companies, and, yep, sometimes they have been chosen because of how we align with their or their owners’ policies.

I’m indeed actually writing this a few days after Mozilla did an absolute shocker with some truly bad terms being added to FireFox, and although those have partly been rolled back, I’m reminded in many cases all we have for tech is least-worst options. Because while Mozilla did its self-inflicted damage, almost to the day, Google pivoted to permit fingerprinting, as well as disabling Manifest V2 in Chrome

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26843286

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It may sound bizarre, given how much so many use the web today, but it's worth recognizing how many don't think of the web at all anymore. It's their social media app of choice, it's Google, it's some streaming services or YouTube.

The wider web, and the ability to participate in and build independent parts of it oneself, is an almost unheard of idea to many.

So trying to think of some tools/ways to ease them in, a few things come to mind.

Tools

• Publii for a basic WYSIWYG sitebuilding tool that can run on a local machine, offline.

• Zonelets an in-between blogging tool that also runs on a local machine, offline, but has one adjusting some pre-written html and javascript.
  • Zoner, a static site generator to build Zonelets-style blogs without getting into the html/javascript, processes markdown files into html and produces a RSS feed if desired.

Info

• [32-bitcafe's Create

The IndieWeb is a people-focused alternative to the “corporate web”.

We are a community of independent and personal websites based on the principles of: owning your domain and using it as your primary online identity, publishing on your own site first (optionally elsewhere), and owning your content.

...

The IndieWeb effort is different from previous efforts/communities:

• Principles over project-centrism. Others assume a monoculture of one project for all. We are developing a plurality of approaches and projects. The IndieWeb community has a code-of-conduct.
• Publish on your site. Show before tell. Prioritize by making what you need, creating, iterating on your site.
• Design first, protocols and formats second. Focus on creating a good user experience and using your own prototype features to focus on minimum necessary formats and protocols.
• Simpler building blocks. When necessary, we adopt, improve, and create open standards for good design, user experience, and

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37243380

I have an nginx server with WordPress where I post my own poetry, for no one to see. Also the subdomains I use for some self-hosted stuff.

I'm so tired of the centralization that's been happening for the last decade. The small web, the fediverse and what not, just feels "cozier" in a sense. Even though you meet many toxic people here as well and there isn't as much information, it still replicates how the early internet felt. And it just feels better. Anyone else agree?

Small Technology are everyday tools for everyday people designed to increase human welfare, not corporate profits.

Small Tech is…

• Personal
• Easy to use
• Non-colonial
• Private by default
• Zero knowledge
• Peer to peer
• Share alike
• Interoperable
• Non-commercial
• Inclusive