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Updated June 19th, 2023 Sorry, your browser doesn’t support embedded videos. But that doesn’t mean you can’t watch it! You can download Small Is Beautiful #23 directly, and watch it with your favourite video player. Small Is Beautiful (Oct, 2022): What is the Small Web and why do we need it? Today, I want to introduce you to a concept – and a vision for the future of our species in the digital and networked age – that I’ve spoken about for a while but never specifically written about:
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Wasn’t this the intention of the web originally? I’m sure I remember reading about netscape and people hosting their own websites locally…
That was the original plan. One thing that screwed with it was ADSL with very low upload speeds.
If you are self-hosting, you need a symmetrical connection as you are sending the site to everyone who visits. If you are using the net only to consume (download) it is not as important.
True, the ability to effectively serve content was outpaced by the ability to make harder to serve content. But not anymore! For people with good connections anyway.
Wouldn’t it be great if the FCC (or whoever) forced ISPs to only sell symmetrical service?
The Big Web has “users” – a term Silicon Valley has borrowed from drug dealers to describe the people they addict to their services and exploit.
- tell me you’re literally making shit up without telling me.
Yeah I had to do a ‘wtf’ then as well. We had ‘users’ before we had internet -_-
This is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve seen lately. I assume whoever is behind this is relatively new to the Internet, because the “small web” has been how the Internet has worked for decades now. We’ve been able to have our own web presence nearly since the web was invented in the early 90s, and affordable self-hosting has been available since the late 90s. Furthermore, the claims on that site that “all our developer tools and technical infrastructure comes from Big Tech and the Big Web” is so divorced from reality it’s astounding. The Internet largely relies on open source software and frameworks that have been developed over decades by volunteers.
If you want to have your own “small web” presence on the Internet, there’s nothing that’s stopping you. You could’ve set that up a long, long time ago using open-source software on cheap hosting providers. The problem with the so-called “small web” is that you usually also want to interact with other people when online, and that’s why things have gotten centralized over the years.
This is brilliant. You’re promoting something here to which you didn’t provide a (very visible?) link. I can’t find one, anyway. I guess I’ll just use my imagination and context to think about what OP might have been posting about.
The whole subject line is “the link”, as it is in every other post to external resources. At least I guess that the page I just read after clicking the link wasn’t just my imagination.
If you’re using a non-feature-complete mobile app your milage my vary - but that’s not OP’s fault.
