Today I learned about the “Indie Web”, a sort of web revival of the early internet days when everyone made personal websites and linked to each other rather than using the handful of big corporate sites.
People seem to be either self-hosting their websites or using a hosting service like “neocities”. The result appears pretty authentic to the late 90s/early 00s: a wide range of polish, very niche and specific interests, page visit counters, guest books, chat rooms, random little games, etc.
It’s tempting to get into. I figure that this might be something that would appeal to a lot of people on the fediverse too, so I thought I’d share. Here are some random pics of people’s websites:
Whenever I see something like this, I like to give a quick pointer to Gemini (the protocol, which has nothing to do with the AI): https://geminiprotocol.net/
Pages don’t have the unique html look and feel of individual web pages – everything is basically just text and maybe static images. But, it does have a small, personal feel. I don’t spend a lot of time there, but it’s fun to browse on a slow day.
Whoa, this is neat too. I could imagine some good use cases for this.