Encounter: The Web We’ve (Never) Lost

https://www.bitoff.org/web-we-never-lost/

Quoting…

Resources

Discovery

Search Engines

• Stract
• Wiby
• Marginalia
• Feedle
• Kagi

Directories

• Curlie
• Personalsit.es
• Ooh.directory

Webrings

• Webring List
• a11y webring club
• Hotline Webring (no longer accepting new sites)
• TheOldNet WebRing
• CSS Joy
• Geekring

Communities

• Neocities
• Glitch
• SpaceHey
• Fediverse
  • fediverse.info
  • Fediverse Observer
  • Fediverse Party
  • To the Fediverse

What can I do?

Read

• Click around, find out
• RSS feeds
  • Is RSS dead?
  • About Feeds

Curate

• Are.na
• Raindrop
• My list of lists

Create

• Single-serving sites
  • Tired.com
  • Zombo.com
• Blogs
  • Get blogging!
  • Start a fucking blog (contains strong language)
  • Jason’s list of blogging platforms

Additional reading

• Motherfucking website (contains strong language)
• Where have all the websites gone? by Jason Velazquez
• Where have all the flowers gone? by Dave Rupert (reply to Jason’s post)
• The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again by Anil Dash
• Why the Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore by Kyle Chayka
• The Web Is Fucked (contains strong language)

Indie web, Small web et al.

• Yesterweb
• IndieWeb
• Small web
  • What is the Small Web? by Aral Balkan
  • The small web is beautiful by Ben Hoyt
  • Rediscovering the Small Web by Parimal Satyal
  • web0 manifesto
• smol web
  • what is the smol web? by Eric Bower
  • smolweb
• slow web
  • The Slow Web Initiative
  • “Slow web” entry on IndieWeb wiki
• SmolNet