Some links and articles about the small web, and how to make & use websites more responsibly and intentionally.
The Three-Legged Stool is the whitepaper of UMass Amherst's Initiative for Digital Pubic Infrastructure. It's a little bit academic but describes what I think is a great idea: an Internet made of smaller pieces that's friendlier to explore.
Resilient Web Design is a great longread about the history of HTML as a technology and the potential for its future.
LOW-TECH MAGAZINE is a digital publication about low-tech solutions to today's problems, including the energy consumption of the Internet and how to mitigate it. The site may not be up all the time; it's hosted on a Raspberry Pi powered by a solar panel.
endtimes.dev is a blog about practices + tips for making websites smaller, faster, and lower-impact.
The Internet With a Human Face is a lecture by Maciej Cegłowski about how deeply and badly we fucked up by subsidizing the internet with ads. It is from 10 years ago but the thesis holds up.
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