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I long for a world wide web that goes back to basics: Markdown for text, JPEG or PNG for images, *no* Javascript or other client-side execution, designed to be writable by a human being with a simple text editor and no fucking interactive/dynamic bullshit. Make it as advertising hostile as possible. And above all keep it *small* (as in: a large, sprawling web site should fit on 16Mb USB stick).
In other words, web like it's 1996 again.
@cstross I did this for my website recently. The whole thing fits in about 30kB, 45kB if you count the web service itself.
@cstross
Is main 1996 feature/aspect
- a particular form or
- a power distribution, aka no monopolies in 96, simpler relationships, etc.?
@cstross - sounds like my website.
Doing that. Here's a handy sticker for your smol website.
@cstross I eventually got to like JavaScript, by which I mean 2009 ES5. ES6 et seq. can suck my BigInt64Array.
@cstross I miss that internet too. I remember being cranky when people started using fonts and background images.
But it was mostly full of white dudes like me and I enjoy the variety of people I get to see now.
Cookies were a mistake.
@cstross @juergen_hubert Why Markdown instead of HTML?
@cstross, interesting idea. I would not mind
@cstross plain text files on an open ftp server. Anything more is hedonism.
@cstross "Markdown for text" totally agree, some kind of human readable standard inspired in Markdown. Gemtext markup language (Gemini) is great for people that publish essays, tales, personal journals or links. Sucks at the rest. Colored text, emphasis and image support are very basic or nonexistent.
Gemtext is simple = Great
Gemtext is also VERY simple = Bad
Counterblast: designs that required tables were a decoy lead for the web
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@cstross
I've been working on an HTML-first web app framework.
It was basically working, and then I broke it and then I got sidetracked multiple times. The Web Gods clearly hate me.