Joke’s on you… it never had a soul!
I like that the article has some positivity (and some cool links) at the end.
Also, I definitely feel like the fediverse is a step toward a less soulless (more soulful?) internet.
If you liked the links, there are also backup of some geocities sites. And yeah, the fediverse gives the user some sort of control back, i like it here.
You can do your part by just starting your own website.
god i so wish that i could create my own colorful website, but html/css/javascript were always near impossible for me :( great article, thank you for sharing!
Thank you for reading! There are great tutorials for beginners regarding html/css. Also you can also start with copying the html text of another site and modify it.
To be honest, the minimum you really need for a colourful website is just HTML and a dash of inline CSS, especially if you want to recreate that nostalgic early internet type of feeling. JavaScript is very much optional.
In my opinion you should start easy, understand how it all clicks together, especially HTML and then start building, and eventually rebuilding, on top of it after you have grasped the basics. Most people gets scared by HTML, CSS and JavaScript because they are usually presented together as if you couldn’t use one without the others, but you most certainly can.
Just my 2 cents.
The article is a bit too nostalgic for my tastes, and hyping 4chan or Web 1.0 surrogates is not going to put the Internet back into users’ hands.
Everybody should rather take a look at what Ari Balkan is doing with the Small Web concept over at his blog. He’s also on Mastodon and generally seems like a great guy.
