Bookmarks
A curated collection of links, articles, and resources I've found worth sharing. Browse by topic using the tags below, or follow along via RSS.
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Everyone Should Have Access to the Web - The History of the Web
The World Wide Web Foundation began as a way to bring the web to everyone. In these trying times, it is needed more than ever.
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Autonomy Online: A Case For The IndieWeb — Smashing Magazine
There is an alternative to corporate bubbles online — it’s called the indieweb. build your own personal websites, control your online presence, and learn on your own terms.
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He Created the Web. Now He’s Out to Remake the Digital World. (Published 2021)
Tim Berners-Lee wants to put people in control of their personal data. He has technology and a start-up pursuing that goal. Can he succeed
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How Social Media Killed Internet Art Communities
Zany, early creative communities like DeviantArt and conceptart.org have been steamrolled by homogenous social media platforms
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The Old Internet Died And We Watched And Did Nothing
Quick: Can you think of a picture of yourself on the internet from before 2010, other than your old Facebook photos? How about something you’ve written? Maybe some old sent emails in Gmail or old Gchats? Thankfully I can. This article explores this more.
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A Love Letter to Net.Art - The History of the Web
In an interview for her book Internet Art in 2004, writer Rachel Greene had this to say about why she felt...
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When the Web Was Weird
In the late ‘90s, an obscure site called Superbad pioneered jarringly bizarre, often ugly, but occasionally beautiful web design. It’s taken all this time for the rest of the Internet to catch up.
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The year we wanted the internet to be smaller
Why tiny, weird online communities made a comeback in 2017.
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2015 is the year the old internet finally died
The old blogosphere is being eaten alive by the rise of social media and the mobile web.
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The modern web is becoming an unusable, user-hostile wasteland
The question is: at which point do we reach the breaking point?
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To Mend a Broken Internet, Create Online Parks
We need public spaces, built in the spirit of Walt Whitman, that allow us to gather, communicate, and share in something bigger than ourselves...
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Making the Web Fun Again
Kyle looks at how the web could be made fun again.
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One Startup’s Vision to Reinvent the Web for Better Privacy
Blockstack’s system would let you control your own personal data—for example, by revoking a site’s access to it...
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What I Learned about the Internet by Creating My Own Website
Here are some things Cheapskates learned about the Internet by creating their own website.
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Exit Feeds, Enter Community
Information floods the internet. You can't control it, but it must be controlled for you to absorb it. It is primarily controlled through infinite feeds of content on social media....
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The Missing Hit and the Open Web
If it doesn't appear in google's search results, does it really exist?
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Nostalgia Is Bullshit
When you come to the realisation that web 1.0 nostalgia is bullshit. September shares with us their thoughts about web 1.0 design nostalgia. Like all nostalgia, it's bullshit.
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Why can't I write code inside my browser?
So I can write code inside my spreadsheet, but not inside my browser? WTF!
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Ten Commandments of the Small Internet
A grassroots Internet movement called \"the small Internet\" is afoot. Here are ten commandments that Cheapskates would like to see largely obeyed on the small Internet.
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What happened to the ‘old internet’? We used to have so much variety and choice – it's all collapsed, or has it?
The Internet brings the world into people’s homes, enabling people to interact with worldwide events in a way that television can’t. What's changed?