< Some thoughts about the small web

~beefox

my take on the small web is it is made by individuals, probably by hand, and with love.

i'd rather it have no ads, no 3rd party stuff, and minimal javascript, but i don't think those things make up the essence of the small web. which is that its human made. its not made by businesses or people with millions to spend, its made by one person who wants to carve out their own space on the internet.

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~pandion wrote:

Yes you are right. I managed to miss the most important aspect of the small net.

It Is the one that is the most difficult to codify though.

I wander, if I were to come upon a site that is the product of someones love for artistic expression, that loads up several MB of images and remote styling, and JavaScript pop ups urging me to subscribe, etc would I consider it small web?

And on the other hand, google's first page renders just fine on Lynx, without JavaScript. Would I call that small web?

Maybe there has to be an other category, that expresses the amateuristic non commercial web, and the small web could be considered a subcategory of that.

All that is just semantics I guess.