##Sites to Explore Wow, there are a lot of people working on a smaller internet. While I do come down on the side of alternate protocols which level the playing field, and save resources, the greater part of the value, at least for now, is still out in http-land. All of the links are from the web. If any of you are so pure that you no longer use the web, I am impressed and would love to hear from you --my sdf email is at the bottom of this post. But for now, most of us should focus more on avoiding super-big and ugly finding whatever small and beautiful things that we can. I start with Ran Prieur mainly out of acknowledgement for where I first heard about the small internet. =>https://ranprieur.com/ Ran Prieur Though I don't agree with all of his conjectures, he is a much more interesting person than I. Also, he's looks at Reddit so I don't have to. Ran is also where I saw the marginalia search engine => https://search.marginalia.nu/ Which in turn recommended wiby.me => https://wiby.me/ I really like going to Wiby and clicking "surprise me." It feels like web surfing again. Some of the sites are just plain old, others are just plain, but it is an experience in the kind of web I would otherwise feel nostalgia for (you can't a pain of loss for something you currently have. . . ) What follows are some of my finds from wiby. A recipe site without the bull. (Those are difficult to find, indeed) =>http://wetleather.com/recipes/ This page is just a damn triumph of the old school internet =>https://www.romeartlover.it/index.html Vanity plates: =>http://www.chaos.umd.edu/misc/ Just organized weirdness: =>https://ratical.org/ =>https://ratical.org/rhrIndex/tree.html Midi music (!! So long since I've seen that) : =>http://www.memeart.com/midis.html 10KB art gallery of weirdness: =>https://10kb.neocities.org/ Autism, Intense World Theory: =>https://koshka.love/intenseworld.html [Update] Naturally, after I wrote this I would noodle around in gemini space, and do some follow up to find the low tech webring: =>https://emreed.net/LowTech_Directory.html === I'd love to hear from people. My email is the handle minus "net" (work by Voltaire that starts with "c"), at sdf.org.