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Chris Ferdinandi ⚓️ (cferdinandi@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jun-2024 02:29:10 JST Chris Ferdinandi ⚓️
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@donny @interfluidity @rscottjones @aral DONNY! I didn't know you were on Mastodon! Glad you tooted this. Now I can follow you!

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  Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jun-2024 02:29:10 JST Aral Balkan
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  @cferdinandi @donny @interfluidity @rscottjones 💕
  
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  Donny Winston (donny@fairpoints.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jun-2024 02:29:11 JST Donny Winston
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  > What we’re seeking isn’t a return to rudimentary design tools and animated construction signs.
  This made me think of how I cut my teeth on the Web with <blink> and <marquee> tags strewn about a dot-html file in Windows Notepad. And yes, of course, a URL for an Under Construction animated GIF was an <img>’s src. But those tags. It makes me think that a Cambrian explosion of positively ridiculous Web Components could cultivate a wide range of “idiosyncratic and intimate, peculiar and distinctive” text/html responses that reduce the ante for personal expression to a Parson’s problem within a text editor.
  /cc @cferdinandi (for being long on Web Components) @aral (for the Small Web effort and how Yarn might look)
  
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  Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jun-2024 02:29:12 JST Steve Randy Waldman
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  "The lurch back towards that early web is a deep hunger for the personal web. The web that made you feel like you were part of this crazy but exciting endeavor that suddenly connected you with some other person across the world… We want something that feels more…real. Something authentic, not performative… We don’t want a content treadmill, we want online presences that are idiosyncratic and intimate, peculiar and distinctive." @rscottjones https://rscottjones.com/its-not-about-nostalgia-its-about-human-connection/
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    It’s not about nostalgia, it’s about human connection • rscottjones
    
    from @https://twitter.com/rscottjones
    
    Look, the early internet sucked. It was shitty design. We aren’t looking to go back to shitty design for shitty design’s sake. What we are nostalgic for isn’t terrible websites. It’s personal websites. It’s just a bit of diversity in design choices. It’s a hint of a person. Not a personal brand. An actual fucking ... Read more

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