How the Blog Broke the Web (2017)
Am I allowed to plug my own site? The old web is still around - you just need to dig through more new web to find it. I run my site through a few Gulp tasks to minimize files and provide security-integrity checks for my CSS - but otherwise it is all hand written HTML. Every page begins with copy/pasting another page and changing out the content by hand.<p>I've noticed in the last few years the articles about the "early 90's/00's" web has increased. A desire for the older, more personal, mostly text and some cheesy few-framed animated .gif web. A web that felt more person to person instead of corporation to corporation or plastic Barbie doll to plastic Ken doll full with fake personas.<p>This is why I support Neocities [0] and host my site with them. You can find all sort of interesting sites if you browse [1] a while. My personal favorite is browsing all the layers of [2].<p>[0] <a href="https://neocities.org/" rel="nofollow">https://neocities.org/</a><p>[1] <a href="https://neocities.org/browse" rel="nofollow">https://neocities.org/browse</a><p>[2] [Warning: Auto-playing Music] <a href="https://mebious.neocities.org/Layer/Wierd.html" rel="nofollow">https://mebious.neocities.org/Layer/Wierd.html</a>