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I've been quite inspired recently by finding a ton of cool personal websites and wikis and thought I would share my views on how freeing it is to make your own: ritualdust.com/craft/make-your…
in reply to Lizbeth

Very nice article.

I don't like this phrasing: "Don’t bother looking into static site builders or deployment services until just uploading your files on your server is too much work."

[until just] is tough.

Don’t bother looking into static site builders until your website has grown enough that manually uploading your files becomes too much work.

in reply to Devine Lu Linvega

+1 on excising "just", makes tutorials & similar resources so much more welcoming :tealheart: (also excellent article!!!)
in reply to Alexander Cobleigh

totally agree, I still catch myself using it in those contexts, thanks for pointing that out :3
in reply to Lizbeth

I might go over it in a couple of days and add more resources and definitions to make it even more accessible to newcomers, I feel that we are privileged of having worked with the web early in our lives and it might not be so obvious how to start working with it now ~
in reply to Lizbeth

we've known the web when it was simple, some people who never experienced it can't even picture it.

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in reply to Devine Lu Linvega

exactly, it must look and feel really overwhelming now with everything being an "app" and cloud hosting and all that stuff
in reply to Lizbeth

looking up "simple web hosting" returns pretty abysmal results, most are super complex cPanel typo hosts, the others ones are like "first step: create github account" 🤦‍♀️
in reply to Devine Lu Linvega

Unfortunately, when the web was simple, it also was pretty unreachable to a load of people with less skills and training. We failed to make it accessible while keeping it simple. 😔

@ritualdust @cblgh

in reply to Kristian

yeah, hopefully, that can change with this kind of revival, I've been learning and applying a lot of new accessibility things recently ~
in reply to lee

thanks! I'm very fond of it, the same way I would be of a rock collection or an old book ~
in reply to Lizbeth

have you looked at Gemini? That was quite a rabbit hole.
in reply to dokoissho

barely, i know it's there waiting for me to fall into it haha
in reply to Lizbeth

In terms of what you describe in your article about web sites, it checks all the boxes.
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Lizbeth
glad you went there, it is really bad indeed, I work as a software engineer making some of these apps for a company and it's draining my life force haha, it's so bad also how capitalism pushed everyone to become a "personal brand" and try to sell something. If there's resources or websites that helped you get into it without that previous knowledge feel free to share, I'd really like to make it as accessible as possible to new people 😀
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JoYo
heh, i remember stealing a javascript that dimmed most of the page until the user moused over the section of the page they wanted to see. totally terrible UX but I was so proud of that. now I settled for having a single user instance on the fedi, still just as proud but for new reasons.
in reply to JoYo

hahaha, tbh there's room for weird non-practical stuff too, I like to have an experience while visiting websites too 😀
in reply to Lizbeth

I love this! I currently have a somewhat fractured homepage—there's the static site I'm working to build, and the WordPress blog that I've lived on for 10+ years. I like the idea of consolidating down into a much simpler website, but all the blog backlog is hard to grapple with.
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Lizbeth
that's a good approach, i'll try to keep that in mind 😀
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Julien Deswaef

Hey, I was 20 in the 90ies. And I was lucky to have a computer and internet at home.

The closest thing I find today of the experience of the 90ies web is to go on the #Tor hidden network. And look for websites there. They take a while to load. And you don't know what you're gonna get. The way to navigate is to hop from one website to another (no good search engine on the dark web) and hope to find a good page that lists to a load of other good sites.

#tor
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Lizbeth
ohh those guides are good! adding them on there :3
in reply to Lizbeth

another great tool that came to mind is neocities.org, feels very much on the same vibe as yr article 😀
in reply to Alexander Cobleigh

yes! thanks, I've been stumbling upon more and more websites made with this 😀
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Kit Rhett Aultman
I was around for the late 90s web and I think it's really easy to think too fondly on it. Things could feel pretty bloated then, too, because most average users didn't have high-speed access. Sites had less interactivity, but there were plenty of web 'zines (Gothic.net was my favorite then). Digital cameras didn't exist, so even a picture of yourself was a bit of a feat. Probably the nicest part was that lynx worked with everything.
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Kit Rhett Aultman
A little bit, yes. There's a super valid criticism that "the capitalist Web" has fundamentally gone the wrong way and that "browser as an applications platform" has sacrificed openness, community, accessibility, and many other things. We should want to take those things back. But we should also remember that the 90s Web required technological skill to be a part of, which was itself also undemocratic, and that bloat always scales to what technology will endure.
in reply to Kit Rhett Aultman

16 years old me without any computer classes/prior knowledge figured out my way through geocities, and put stuff online. I wonder what the equivalent of that is today, and if could have figured it out.
in reply to Devine Lu Linvega

during my time it was having a tumblr blog and learning code by tweaking the themes others have coded

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