I think it worse looks great.

I stumbled across https://cameronsworld.net the other day. Go and visit it and come back here first.

It’s a fantastic full on, in-your-face torrent of nostalgia for the early web. The kind of web you’d surf. People had little gardens of web sites they’d tend to.

Choose Joy!

My first exposure to programming proper was my first ever ‘homepage’, after we got PHP set up on the OS X Leopard webserver.

I spend hours, days, weeks fiddling with absolute positioned divs, the magic of my navbar.inc.php propagating automatically across all of my pages.

…and that led me to

  • Learning about AppleScript and making little OS X ‘applications’, then Learn Python the Hard Way, then Higher Or
  • Being gifted Python 3 for Absolute Beginners, then going on to read https://learnpythonthehardway.org/
  • Then coming across Higher Order Perl and loving Perl, to then learn about Perl 6, with postcircumfix operators:
sub postcircumfix:<⸨ ⸩>( Positional $a, Whatever ) {
    say $a[0], '…', $a[*-1]
}

[1,2,3,4]⸨*⸩;      # OUTPUT: «1…4␤»

constant term:<♥> = "♥"; # We don't want to quote "love", do we?
sub circumfix:<α ω>( $a ) {
    say „$a is the beginning and the end.“
};

α♥ω;               # OUTPUT: «♥ is the beginning and the end.␤»

Seriously, wtf

So, the ginormous tech platforms do control basically all the ‘the internet’.

And the platforms are run by billionaires, who are most interested in high arousal emotions and people being mad at each other and all that stuff, driving engagement etc.

But the thing about the internet is that it’s not finite, or zero sum, you can just make more of it.

Just buy a domain, stick a few pages up on a webserver and you’ve got your little slice of gif-and-banner peace. Just like, go somewhere else instead of the big platforms. Email your friend.

Write a blog no one will read!