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:

  • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    Wasn’t this the intention of the web originally? I’m sure I remember reading about netscape and people hosting their own websites locally…

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        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.