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1 The internet used to be ✨fun✨ 2 3 I’ve been meaning to write some kind of Important Thinkpiece™ on the glory days 4 of the early internet, but every time I sit down to do it, I find another, 5 better piece that someone else has already written. So for now, here’s a 6 collection of articles that to some degree answer the question “Why have a 7 personal website?” with “Because it’s fun, and the internet used to be fun.” 8 9 If you’ve written something that feels like it belongs here—especially if your 10 voice is one that’s frequently underrepresented—I’d be interested to read it! 11 Holler at me via email (kwon at fastmail.com), or on Mastodon ([1] 12 mastodon.social/@rjkwon). 13 14 Article Author Date Date added 15 published ↓ 16 [2]Blogs Are Dead. Long Live Blogs! [3]Gersande La 2023-03-26 2024-03-03 17 Flèche 18 [4]Surfing the Old Web [5]Juan Villela 2023-01-11 2024-03-03 19 [6]Why Personal Blogging Still Rules [7]Mike Grindle 2023-04-12 2024-03-03 20 [8]L'informatique, c'était mieux avant [9]Richard Dern 2022-01-21 2024-03-03 21 (Computing was better before) 22 [10]shite: static sites from shell [11]Aditya Athalye 2022-03-08 2024-03-03 23 [12]Desktops.zip - Some thoughts on [13]Simone 2023-08-14 2024-03-03 24 websites that look like desktops Marzulli 25 [14]Reviving Ye Olde Personal Home [15]Dominik Rabiej 2019-06-30 2024-03-03 26 Page 27 [16]Digital Homes and Neighborhoods [17]Jake Weber 2023-05-23 2024-03-03 28 [18]Game of Content [19]Deep H. Dave 2021-03-09 2024-03-03 29 [20]The Internet Changed My Life [21]Maxime 2022-01-19 2024-03-03 30 Chevalier-Boisvert 31 [22]Social Websites [23]Matt Stein 2024-02-06 2024-03-03 32 [24]The Web is Fantastic [25]Robb Knight 2023-12-28 2024-03-03 33 [26]Into the Personal Website-Verse [27]Matthias Ott 2019-05-12 2024-03-03 34 [28]Splitting the Web [29]Ploum 2023-08-01 2024-03-03 35 [30]Do You Remember the Internet [31]dear talula 2022-02-19 2024-03-03 36 Before Social Media? 37 [32]Blog Bookmark Rot [33]Skelly 2024-02-17 2024-03-03 38 [34]Let Us Build a New Web [35]Brad Enslen 2018-09-13 2024-03-03 39 [36]Where have all the websites gone? [37]Jason 2024-01-08 2024-03-03 40 Velazquez 41 [38]Ruminating on Walled Gardens [39]Brandon 2024-02-16 2024-03-03 42 [40]My website is a shifting house [41]Laurel 43 next to a river of knowledge. What Schwulst 2018-05-21 2024-02-11 44 could yours be? 45 [42]Rediscovering the Old Internet [43]Noisy 2023-09-07 2024-02-11 46 Vibe Deadlines 47 [44]Click around, find out [45]John Hoare 2024-01-21 2024-02-11 48 [46]The Bullshit Web [47]Nick Heer 2018-11-30 2024-02-11 49 [48]The old internet [49]Rebecca Toh 2020-01-16 2024-02-11 50 [50]Computers: An Invocation for Soft [51]Katherine Yang 2023-09-01 2024-02-11 51 Tech 52 [52]i really love the (hipster) [53]Judah 2023-02-02 2024-02-11 53 internet 54 [54]Poor man's web [55]Serge Zaitsev 2021-04-27 2024-02-11 55 [56]The web is yours [57]James G 2024-01-06 2024-02-11 56 [58]Refuge in blogs and the IndieWeb [59]Robert Kingett 2023-10-17 2024-02-11 57 [60]I Love the Web [61]fLaMEd 2021-04-06 2024-02-11 58 [62]a personal manifesto [63]Simone 2023-04-20 2024-01-04 59 Silvestroni 60 [64]Everyone Should Blog, And That [65]Alexandra 2023-12-30 2024-01-04 61 Includes You 62 [66]My website as a home [67]Nico Chilla 2023-11-13 2024-01-04 63 [68]The Web Revival [69]Melon 2023-11-10 2024-01-04 64 [70]Make your own independent website [71]Victoria Drake 2021-01-16 2024-01-04 65 [72]Why the Indie Web movement is so [73]Dan Gillmor 2014-04-25 2024-01-04 66 important 67 [74]It’s Time to Get Personal [75]Laura Kalbag 2019-12-09 2024-01-04 68 [76]Please for the love of Blarg, [77]Jay Springett 2019-12-14 2024-01-04 69 Start a Blog 70 [79]Spencer Chang 71 [78]Taking an Internet Walk [80]Kristoffer -- 2023-11-12 72 Tjalve 73 [81]tiny internets [82]Spencer Chang -- 2023-11-12 74 [83]You Should Have a Website [84]Mark Murphy -- 2023-11-12 75 [85]Notes on the small web [86]Felix 2022-09-10 2023-10-24 76 Pleşoianu 77 [87]The Quiet Web [88]Brian 2021-02-12 2023-10-24 78 Koberlein 79 [89]Rediscovering the Old Internet [90] 2023-09-07 2023-10-24 80 Vibe noisydeadlines.net 81 [91]Soft tech [92]Helena -- 2023-10-24 82 Jaramillo 83 [93]How to fix the internet [94]Katie 2023-10-17 2023-10-19 84 Notopoulos 85 [95]Social Internet Is Dead. Get Over [96]Om Malik 2023-10-15 2023-10-18 86 It. 87 [97]Build your own website! [98]Devastatia del 2023-07-09 2023-10-16 88 Gato 89 [99]The Importance of Personal [100]Hayden White 2023-08-29 2023-10-16 90 Websites 91 [101]why the web? [102]Justin Hall -- 2023-09-30 92 [103]Exploring the Personal Web [104] 2023-05-06 2023-09-30 93 foreverliketh.is 94 [105]Why you should have a blog (and [106]Leticia 2020-06-21 2023-09-30 95 write in it) Portella 96 [107]My 20th anniversary of blogging! [108]Tracy Durnell 2023-09-23 2023-09-30 97 [109]Bix's story of his internet [110]Bix Frankonis 2020-02-24 2023-09-18 98 [111]About me (localghost) [112]Sophie Koonin -- 2023-09-12 99 [113]At home on the internet [114]Johnny -- 2023-09-12 100 Rodgers 101 [115]How I experience web today [116]Li Guangyi -- 2023-09-12 102 [117]About this website [118]Zinzy Waleson -- 2023-09-12 103 Geene 104 [119]How the Blog Broke the Web [120]Amy Hoy -- 2023-09-12 105 [121]I miss the internet. [122]Joan 2023-07-07 2023-09-12 106 Westenberg 107 [123]Every person on the planet should [124]Amin 2023-07-06 2023-09-12 108 have their own website Eftegarie 109 [125]Eight years of blogging [126]Paweł Grzybek 2023-03-11 2023-09-12 110 [127]Blogging is alive and well [128]Colin Devroe 2023-01-11 2023-09-12 111 [129]The Year of the Personal Website [130]Matthias Ott 2023-01-06 2023-09-12 112 [131]Bring back personal blogging [132]Monique Judge 2022-12-31 2023-09-12 113 [133]Passionless Web [134]Manuel 2022-08-16 2023-09-12 114 Moreale 115 [135]Building a Digital Homestead, Bit [136]Tom Critchlow 2022-03-08 2023-09-12 116 by Brick 117 [137]Early Web Design Helped a [138]Nika Simovich 118 Generation Express Themselves Online. Fisher 2022-03-08 2023-09-12 119 How Do We Capture That Feeling Again? 120 [139]The Joys and Sorrows of [140]"Cheapskate" 2022-03-06 2023-09-12 121 Maintaining a Personal Website 122 [141]On building a home on the web [142]Daniël van 2022-02-25 2023-09-12 123 der Winden 124 [143]How Websites Die [144]Wesley 2022-02-21 2023-09-12 125 Aptekar-Cassels 126 [145]“Tom had us all doing front-end [146]Kate M. 127 web development”: a nostalgic (re) Miltner 2021-10-07 2023-09-12 128 imagining of Myspace [147]Ysabel 129 Gerrard 130 [148]Why Personal Websites are [149]Chuck Carroll 2021-03-25 2023-09-12 131 Important 132 [150]The Value of a Personal Site [151]Marc 2021-03-15 2023-09-12 133 [152]The small web is beautiful [153]Ben Hoyt 2021-03-01 2023-09-12 134 [154]envisioning my homepage as an [155]Winnie Lim 2020-11-22 2023-09-12 135 online therapeutic space 136 [156]Hunting the Nearly-Invisible [157]"Cheapskate" 2020-08-27 2023-09-12 137 Personal Website 138 [158]What is the Small Web? [159]Aral Balkan 2020-08-07 2023-09-12 139 [160]Rediscovering the Small Web [161]Parimal 2020-05-25 2023-09-12 140 Satyal 141 [162]On attention management & owning [163]Roel van der 2017-06-04 2023-09-12 142 your content Ven 143 [164]Stop Crowdsourcing Your [165]Darius Foroux 2016-08-25 2023-09-12 144 Confidence 145 [166]Homesteading 2014 [167]Frank Chimero 2013-12-21 2023-09-12 146 [168]Death to Bullshit [169]Brad Frost 2013-04-08 2023-09-12 147 [170]A Brief History & Ethos of the [171]Maggie -- 2023-09-12 148 Digital Garden Appleton 149 [172]E/N (Everything/Nothing) [173]JR (Sawv) -- 2023-09-12 150 151 Line drawing of an old-school desktop computer with various whimsical items 152 emanating from the screen including an ice cream cone, rainbow, puppy, happy 153 sheep, and sparkles 154 155 I still love the internet (it's still fun) 156 Made with [174]Hugo and 💕 by [175]Rachel J. 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