The Smol Web

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Community for the appreciation and sharing of links, resources, and culture of: the smol web / small web / ~(w)~ / the indie web / or even the non-www internet (gemini, gopher, etc).

Back of a napkin definition, subject to change: if it's internet accessible and is maintained by a person, especially for non-commercial aims, then I would consider it smol. There are, however, much stricter definitions.

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gopherpunks rise up (slrpnk.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago by stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net to c/smolweb@slrpnk.net

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/26687421

old internet

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[–] refurbishedrefurbisher 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

10 FPS 160p streaming video if you were lucky enough to have blazing fast internet, usually requiring a RealPlayer or Quicktime browser plugin
Adobe/Shockwave/Macromedia Flash having its tenticles in basically the whole internet
Autoplaying MIDI in webpages
Animated backgrounds
Unencrypted communications being standard
Whatever AOL tried to do
Internet Explorer being standard due to its free inclusion in Windows

But even then, Web 2.0 (starting with YouTube) still ruined the internet since corporations were able to take basically full control.