A Look At The Small Web, Part 1
A Look At The Small Web, Part 1
In the early 1990s I was privileged enough to be immersed in the world of technology during the exciting period that gave birth to the World Wide Web, and I can honestly say I managed to completely…
I'm so glad to be seeing small and indie web stuff so often lately. I never played with gopher and Gemini. Today might be the day.
Although suffering from some technical limitations, Gemini's a rabbit hole of interesting stuff and a breath of fresh air from all the post-
<blink>ad-centered js-enabled garbage that has become the WWW.
Basically just a pitch for Gemini. The problem with Gemini is that we could do all that now with the web. They're just stripping features to enforce what they think the Web should be.
I kind of get it. I like the idea of a simplified protocol. No JS engines to be exploited. I like building small static sites and wish more people would.
But also, there's a million reasons we moved away from plain rudimentary HTML and terminal browsers. Not least of which is interactivity and writability. You couldn't create a Lemmy frontend, forum, or any kind of database UI using this protocol.
Shy of reading documentation like man pages, I don't really see the value.
I enjoy reading phlogs on gopher.