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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 27-Sep-2026 06:04:27 JST Charlie Stross

   I long for a world wide web that goes back to basics: Markdown for text, JPEG or PNG for images, *no* Javascript or other client-side execution, designed to be writable by a human being with a simple text editor and no fucking interactive/dynamic bullshit. Make it as advertising hostile as possible. And above all keep it *small* (as in: a large, sprawling web site should fit on 16Mb USB stick).

   In other words, web like it's 1996 again.

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Sep-2026 14:27:10 JST jwz

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     • Skjeggtroll

     @skjeggtroll @cstross Everyone who says "cookies were a mistake" has failed to think through what would have happened instead: unreadable URLs tracking state via kilobyte-long hex blob query parameters. At least that didn't happen

     [ taps headset ] I am now being informed...

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     Skjeggtroll (skjeggtroll@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 27-Sep-2026 14:27:11 JST Skjeggtroll

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     @cstross

     Cookies were a mistake.

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     Peter Krefting (nafmo@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Sunday, 27-Sep-2026 17:57:43 JST Peter Krefting

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     @cstross My first website fit in a 3.5" disk.

     My current one is completely handcoded, except for a rarely updated WordPress blog section...

     This is the way.