# 2020-07-12 Small Internet
What the internet could be by Clarissa Littler talks about the Beaker browser, Gemini, Gopher, and the world of pubnixes. Ah, the shell accounts of old! Still there! :D
=> http://clarissalittler.github.io//2020/07/11/whattheinternet.html What the internet could be

Anyway, this is my Gemini recommendation: Left Adjoint.
=> gemini://gemlog.blue:1965/users/left_adjoint/ Left Adjoint

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=> gemini://alexschroeder.ch:1965/tag/Web Web


## Comments
Felix writes about similar things; in Web for the people they link to Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web and Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web, by Parimal Satyal.
=> https://felix.plesoianu.ro/blog/web-for-the-people.html Web for the people
=> https://neustadt.fr/essays/against-a-user-hostile-web/ Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web
=> https://neustadt.fr/essays/the-small-web/ Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web

Plain old webpages, also by Felix Pleşoianu, is about how content management systems make it harder and harder to extricate your text from the application that hosts it. How much of that is really necessary? How much is lost for the benefit of a automatic links added here and there?
=> https://felix.plesoianu.ro/web/plain-old-webpages.html Plain old webpages

-- Alex 2021-07-13 06:58 UTC



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