Wow, there are a lot of people working on a smaller
internet.
While I do come down on the side of alternate protocols
which level the playing field, and save resources, the
greater part of the value, at least for now, is still out
in http-land. All of the links are from the web. If any
of you are so pure that you no longer use the web, I am
impressed and would love to hear from you --my sdf email is
at the bottom of this post. But for now, most of us should
focus more on avoiding super-big and ugly finding whatever
small and beautiful things that we can.
I start with Ran Prieur mainly out of acknowledgement for
where I first heard about the small internet.
Though I don't agree with all of his conjectures, he is a
much more interesting person than I. Also, he's looks at
Reddit so I don't have to.
Ran is also where I saw the marginalia search engine
Which in turn recommended wiby.me
I really like going to Wiby and clicking "surprise me." It
feels like web surfing again. Some of the sites are just
plain old, others are just plain, but it is an experience in
the kind of web I would otherwise feel nostalgia for (you
can't a pain of loss for something you currently have. . . )
What follows are some of my finds from wiby.
A recipe site without the bull. (Those are difficult to find,
indeed)
http://wetleather.com/recipes/
This page is just a damn triumph of the old school internet
https://www.romeartlover.it/index.html
Vanity plates:
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/misc/
Just organized weirdness:
https://ratical.org/rhrIndex/tree.html
Midi music (!! So long since I've seen that) :
http://www.memeart.com/midis.html
10KB art gallery of weirdness:
Autism, Intense World Theory:
https://koshka.love/intenseworld.html
[Update] Naturally, after I wrote this I would
noodle around in gemini space, and do some follow up
to find the low tech webring:
https://emreed.net/LowTech_Directory.html
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I'd love to hear from people. My email is the handle minus
"net" (work by Voltaire that starts with "c"), at sdf.org.