Web Revival

fun interactive math projects, math games, math art and crafts, math writing contests, math story problems, even a magic chalkboard!

Stumbled on this site. Looks old, but copyright updated to 2025, so someone's definitely behind it. We love to see that in this day and age.

Although not sure if posting random homegrown websites I stumble on is appropriate for here, let me know.

You can go here to view my site!!

ooh.directory is a place to find good blogs that interest you.

Explore the categories, search blog details, flip through random blogs, or keep visiting the most recently-updated blogs to see who’s talking about what right now.

They also have a Mastodon profile to follow if you're into that!

The Old Net is an attempt to restore vintage web browsing on vintage computers. It uses the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine API and a proxy that strips out any incompatible javascript and stitches together as many links as it can.

Not 100% sure it's the right place to post this but it also feels a lot like it 100% belongs here. So, let me know what you think ;)

I don’t know about you but when I decided I've had enough of the big bloated web, it was not just to get back to a Web that was not rotten to its core by marketing-money—and the annihilation of any notion of privacy marketing requires in order to better track everything we do so they can sell more ads. This mattered a lot to me, obviously. But it was not my sole motivation to be looking for a smaller and a more humane Web.

My other reason was to reduce my digital-waste.

Be it storage space used on the server for all the large pictures, or the energy used to make scripts run and to transmit always more volume of data between the server and the computers of any visitor.

So, without being a developer myself, I searched for ways to create a website as small and as light as possible; I searched for ways to reduce the size of the images too so they would waste less space and load faster.

It goes without saying, but to reduce waste the first thing was to refuse tracking, scripts and ads. In summary, I don't have ads at all and I don’t know who is visiting my website or what they do when they're visiting... unless that person decides to tell me by contacting me... through email, or here on Lemmy, as there is no way to publish a comment (but that's not directly related to e-waste, it's me not wanting to deal with spam ;)

Here is what I managed to get, I thought it might interest others and could be an interesting discussion:

• The website is static, it's generated through Hugo. Only the resulting HTML pages (full static, no PHP or JS) are uploaded on the server, with a really minimal CSS sheet.
• Minimalism was my objective to begin with but Hugo can do fancier stuff too. On my website there is nothing fancy, no animation and no effects. Just text and a few images (even the dark theme you can see in the first screenshot is not managed by the website: it's a FF extension called Dark Reader doing it). Also, the home page is text-only so it loads even faster (less than 14kB).
• I don’t think there is a single script running in the background but since I’m not an expert and only transformed an existing theme there may still be something hidden somewhere? All I can safely say is that the website loads very fast and that if there is a script running I honestly don't know about it.
• For optimizing the images I did quite a lot of research. Testing various approaches and compression algorithms. I ended up adopting the… AVIF video file format. Yep, a video format that works flawlessly to save static images and that also saves a lot of storage, like a lot.

To give you an idea, here is the picture I used in my last post (posted this morning). It’s a 1000x710px PNG screenshot of my desktop (879,5kB), next to it is a 700px JPEG (118,1kB) and next to it is a 700px AVIF at... 22,6 Kb. If you want ot check the actual image quality (not this poor compressed version) of the AVIF file go check the actual post.

Since AVIF can be tricky to get right, I wrote a small script that does the conversion for me using the imagemagick and the ffmepg command lines (they will need to be installed on your computer). I could only use a recent version of imagemagick (and that’s what I did when I was still using a Mac computer) but I’ve gotten better results using ffmpeg for the AVIF conversion.

#Excerpt of the full script

# resize 700 px if is larger than 700  
# add an unsharp mask (sharper image)
# Save temp file in /temp
convert "$1" -resize 700x700\> -unsharp 0x1 "/tmp/$NOW.jpg"

# convert temp file to avif using ffmpeg
ffmpeg -i "/tmp/$NOW.jpg" -c:v libaom-av1 -crf 30 -pix_fmt yuv420p "$DIR/optimized.avif"

Since I’m also lazy as fuck and don’t fancy myself typing complex command lines when I can avoid it, I transformed those little scripts into Nemo 'Actions' (Nemo is the file explorer that comes with my Linux Mint system, Actions are one of its nifty feature that lets it execute scripts through the contextual menu). So, now all I need to do is to right-click on whatever picture to have it converted as a jpeg, AVIF (and also a B&W version if I ever need it).

Which makes it almost immediate to get the image I need. If you have never written one, an Action looks something like that:

[Nemo Action]
Active=true
Name=Optimize AVIF
Comment=Convert to a 700px AVIF file
Icon-Name=image
Exec=<action_scripts/makeAvif.sh %F>
Selection=any
Extensions=png;PNG;jpg;jpeg;JPG;JPEG;webp;WEBP;AVIF;avif
Quote=double

If you want to reuse those scripts/Action, they’re on my codeberg Git repo.

Dislaimer: I’m not a dev and I’m not even much of a geek. So, there is no warranty it will work. All I can say is that this works well enough for me and I'm ok with the result. There is no doubt this could be improved upon a lot. If you ever feel like doing it, you’re more than welcome to but please do let me know, so I can also use your improvements.

Also, if you have suggestions, tips, ideas to optimize further my website and images, do not hesitate to share them.

Since you managed to read everything to that point, and in case you want to have a look at my website ;)

Like, they just showed up in my web browsing. On my feed somewhere, or on the profile of someone I talk to. For things I am specifically interested in. Gives me hope for more small sites owned by hobbyists, because if I can find them for my niche hobbies, not just for something huge like fitness or gaming in general or cooking…

Both have that aesthetic that says "I was made by someone who does not do web dev professionally." I'll be totally honest, I do actually prefer the way modern sites look, even corporate modern sites, over that, but nostalgia bias makes me accept that old-time aesthetic too. I know some posts on this community might have put a name to that, maybe neocities? I know the name and have definitely visited neocities pages, but didn't spend enough time there to really remember its aesthetic.

I might actually considering making a little site for myself then, and hooking up on a webring… I'm not much of a journaler but it could probably overlap with what people do with journals if I post every time I engage in the hobby and don't delete the post (or if I use git so I can see the change history lol).

In this second part of my ‘Building an IndieWeb house’ series, on the whys and hows of this blog, I’m going to go over the very basics of using the static site generator (SSG) Hugo to make a website, how to get that on the internet and the ‘syndicate elsewhere’ element of the ‘Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere’ (POSSE) concept.

This will be the post that’s the most techy of this series, and one where I do also mention specific platforms, software or companies, and, yep, sometimes they have been chosen because of how we align with their or their owners’ policies.

I’m indeed actually writing this a few days after Mozilla did an absolute shocker with some truly bad terms being added to FireFox, and although those have partly been rolled back, I’m reminded in many cases all we have for tech is least-worst options. Because while Mozilla did its self-inflicted damage, almost to the day, Google pivoted to permit fingerprinting, as well as disabling Manifest V2 in Chrome and hence tracking blockers, such as uBlock Origin.

For browsers, we have Chrom(ium) and its derivatives (i.e. those running on the blink engine), and FireFox and its derivatives (gecko engine), that’s it.

For blogs, thankfully we do have quite a plethora of good options… and a few I personally wouldn’t use, such as the proprietary platform Substack (which charges $50 to use with your own domain anyway). I even would have concerns right now with WordPress, despite its core being open source. [Why is too much to get into here, but there are some links in the ‘extra shots’ section for further reading.]

With regards to techy stuff [oh, yes, I do say techy, not the more-common form techie; I think it’s a valid alternative, so my blog, my rules!], my intention is to show that once something is familiar, with practice it becomes less intimidating.

Part 1

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26843286

From their site:

Web 1.0 Hosting - is an advanced static hosting with some predefined most necessary ready-made scripts, a smallweb project that makes it possible to access static websites from old devices such as retro computers, old operating systems, palmtops, and cellular phones as part of an initiative to save the old web and support the smallweb movement. Hosting of modern websites and the use of modern technologies are also permitted. There is also a search engine, web mail and web chat, working on both modern and legacy systems.

Advantages

• As simple as possible

• No ads at your website

• 3rd level domain name for free: .w10.site, short .w0.am, .narod.ws and .oldcities.org

• You can link your own domain name, see FAQ

• 100 Mb of space for free, 500 Mb for community users, extra space for donation

• Web-mail accessible from the old devices +

• NEW!!! You can host website at your home and connect to the server using L2TP/ipsec, your webserver will be accessible by the login.w10.site/~/, this way you can host at your computer or server without real static IP any dynamic scripts using PHP, Python, whatever, any blog engines, forums, etc ++

• Overlay intranet between the users connected to the L2TP/ipsec server where you can host any services, such as gameservers, domain name in the intranet is your login.intra

• Possibility to access website by IP http://135.181.118.12/~yourwebsite or http://[2a01:4f9:4b:1e30::3]/~yourwebsite without DNS

• Unlimited traffic

• Hotlinking is allowed: you can publish your static content such as photos, videos, scripts, etc, and include them at other websites hosted apart from the Web1.0 Hosting

• No limits for file types

• All the content accessible by HTTP and HTTPS using IPv4 and IPv6

• Web file listing: autoindex is on, any directory without index.html file shows the list of the contained files and directories like it is a web FTP

• Custom error 404 pages

• FTP and FTPS for the file upload

• Web file uploader, code, and WYSIWYG editors for modern web browsers

• SSI (Server Side Includes) allows you to reuse your code and makes working on a static website as convenient as possible: edit the headers and footers just once and include them into other pages of your website (see FAQ)

• Predefined scripts to have feedback from your website visitors, such as contact form, guestbook, photogallery, audio catalog, chat, blog, visitors counter, and likes which are supported by old browsers as well as in modern

• Ability to order hosting using very old devices that support Internet connection and HTML

• Suitable for WAP site hosting for mobile devices

• Suitable for keeping digital assets proved by NFT

• Website builder for creating websites from custom or ready-made templates using HamsterCMS

• Your website is also published within the Yggdrasil network - a free worldwide decentralized overlay peer-to-peer network accessible as YourSite.ws.ygg ALFIS blockchain DNS), YourSite.ws.ygg.at using clearnet DNS, or using Yggdrasil IP without DNS as http://[300:a056:404a:1329::80]/~yourwebsite that allows to avoid any local internet access restrictions in the country without VPN and publish your content wherever you are. This (main) page of the webhosting is accessible by wh.ygg (wh.ygg.at using clearnet DNS ALFIS) or http://[300:a056:404a:1329::80]

• WAP gateway for old mobile phones: 135.181.118.15:9201

• Daily backups to two different locations

• Excluded bus factor - several interchangeable people work on hosting, and not just one person

• Furries friendly hosting

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• ready uploaded website is required

++ provided by the separate request to mail@w10.host Information on this page last updated on 15 of August 2024. Websites count and free space are updating dynamically.

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Not sure what to think here since this has a very neocities vibe. WHOIS says the IP is from Helsinki. It mentions abiding by EU regulations. A lot of russian language posts on the forum they've got.

Once upon a time, the internet was a wild, amazing place where people from around the world could build community, discover solutions to their problems, and exchange ideas. Then, everything changed when corporations took over and turned the internet into a commercial hellscape.

We want to carve out a space on the internet by real people, for real people. The cool little blogs and websites that made the internet special still exist - but they are buried underneath a mountain of ads and corporate slop.

We need your help to build a site so independent voices can be discovered again!

About Curlie

Curlie strives to be the largest human-edited directory of the Web. It is run by volunteer editors. Join today to add to our collection or create your own!

History

We started as the Open Directory Project (ODP), later became DMOZ, and In 2017, we launched Curlie to continue the 100% free directory. There is no cost to submit a site to the directory or use the directory's data.

Purpose

Curlie provides the means for the community to identify and categorize the best content on the web.

It may sound bizarre, given how much so many use the web today, but it's worth recognizing how many don't think of the web at all anymore. It's their social media app of choice, it's Google, it's some streaming services or YouTube.

The wider web, and the ability to participate in and build independent parts of it oneself, is an almost unheard of idea to many.

So trying to think of some tools/ways to ease them in, a few things come to mind.

Tools

• Publii for a basic WYSIWYG sitebuilding tool that can run on a local machine, offline.

• Zonelets an in-between blogging tool that also runs on a local machine, offline, but has one adjusting some pre-written html and javascript.
  • Zoner, a static site generator to build Zonelets-style blogs without getting into the html/javascript, processes markdown files into html and produces a RSS feed if desired.

Info

• 32-bitcafe's Create Your Own Website guide
• IndieWeb's Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere guide

What other resources might you recommend?

The IndieWeb is a people-focused alternative to the “corporate web”.

We are a community of independent and personal websites based on the principles of: owning your domain and using it as your primary online identity, publishing on your own site first (optionally elsewhere), and owning your content.

...

The IndieWeb effort is different from previous efforts/communities:

• Principles over project-centrism. Others assume a monoculture of one project for all. We are developing a plurality of approaches and projects. The IndieWeb community has a code-of-conduct.
• Publish on your site. Show before tell. Prioritize by making what you need, creating, iterating on your site.
• Design first, protocols and formats second. Focus on creating a good user experience and using your own prototype features to focus on minimum necessary formats and protocols.
• Simpler building blocks. When necessary, we adopt, improve, and create open standards for good design, user experience, and ease of implementation.

Perhaps most importantly, we are people-focused instead of project-focused. We have regular meetups. All are welcome. You don't need to have a website to join, but you should be interested in personal websites!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37243380

I have an nginx server with WordPress where I post my own poetry, for no one to see. Also the subdomains I use for some self-hosted stuff.

I'm so tired of the centralization that's been happening for the last decade. The small web, the fediverse and what not, just feels "cozier" in a sense. Even though you meet many toxic people here as well and there isn't as much information, it still replicates how the early internet felt. And it just feels better. Anyone else agree?

Small Technology are everyday tools for everyday people designed to increase human welfare, not corporate profits.

Small Tech is…

• Personal
• Easy to use
• Non-colonial
• Private by default
• Zero knowledge
• Peer to peer
• Share alike
• Interoperable
• Non-commercial
• Inclusive

It’s likely most Hackaday readers could recite a list of problems with the web as it exists here in 2024. Cory Doctrow coined a word for it, enshitification, referring to the shift of web users from being the consumers of online services to the product of those services, squeezed by a few Internet monopolies. A few massive corporations control so much of our online experience from the server to the browser, to the extent that for so many people there is very little the touch outside those confines.

Contrasting the enshitified web of 2024 with the early web, it’s not difficult to see how some of the promise was lost. Perhaps not the web of Tim Berners-Lee and his NeXT cube, but the one of a few years later, when Netscape was the new kid on the block to pair with your Trumpet Winsock. CD-ROMs were about to crash and burn, and I was learning how to create simple HTML pages.

The promise then was of a decentralised information network in which we would all have our own websites, or homepages as the language of the time put it, on our own servers. Microsoft even gave their users the tools to do this with Windows, in that the least technical of users could put a Frontpage Express web site on their Personal Web Server instance. This promise seems fanciful to modern ears, as fanciful perhaps as keeping the overall size of each individual page under 50k, but at the time it seemed possible.

With such promise then, just how did we end up here? I’m sure many of you will chip in in the comments with your own takes, but of course, setting up and maintaining a web server is either hard, or costly. Anyone foolish enough to point their Windows Personal Web Server directly at the Internet would find their machine compromised by script kiddies, and having your own “proper” hosting took money and expertise. Free stuff always wins online, so in those early days it was the likes of Geocities or Angelfire which drew the non-technical crowds. It’s hardly surprising that this trend continued into the early days of social media, starting the inevitable slide into today’s scene described above.

Flashpoint Archive is a community effort to preserve games and animations from the web.

Internet history and culture is important, and the web is evolving at such a rapid pace that what might be commonplace today could be obsolete tomorrow. This project is dedicated to preserving as many experiences from these platforms as possible, so that they aren't lost to time. Since December 2017, over 200,000 games and animations have been preserved across more than a hundred browser plugins and web technologies.

In addition to our preservation efforts, we also provide a highly flexible software package for reliable navigation and playback of preserved content. Among the software that powers Flashpoint is a fully-featured launcher that acts as a frontend for the collection, a proxy that tricks games into thinking they're running on the live web, and a sandbox that allows for secure playback of plugin-enabled content - all of which are open-source software.

The project was originally started by BlueMaxima in an attempt to outrun the disappearance of webgames prior to the death of Flash. It has since evolved into a major undertaking involving hundreds of community contributors from around the world, encompassing both games and animations created for numerous internet plugins, frameworks, and standards.