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Community for the appreciation and sharing of links, resources, and culture of: the smol web / small web / ~(w)~ / the indie web / or even the non-www internet (gemini, gopher, etc).

Back of a napkin definition, subject to change: if it's internet accessible and is maintained by a person, especially for non-commercial aims, then I would consider it smol. There are, however, much stricter definitions.

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Getting started with minimal tech experience? (slrpnk.net)
submitted 4 months ago by foxymochakitten@slrpnk.net to c/smolweb@slrpnk.net
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Hi folks, I'm so dang tired of the internet as it currently is. The idea of a small web, personal websites, returning to what the internet was intended to be sounds incredibly exciting to me and I'd like to invest in that... but I don't really know where to start? So much of what I read seems to have a ton of coding jargon. I clicked on Small Web 101 and it was a masterlist of somewhat confusing links.

The most coding I've done was on Khan Academy as a teenager or setting up an automatic macro to run the coliseum for me in Flight Rising. I pirate basically everything I watch but I've only torrented one or two things and don't really grasp how that works. I don't really know anything about my laptop but I have a vague idea that I should switch to Linux and I replaced the screen once.

What's step one for a wannabe Small Web enthusiast?

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[–] rako@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 3 points 4 months ago
  • Get yourself an account on neocities
  • Pick a website you like on https://512kb.club/ . Anyone of them, it doesn't have to be perfect
  • open the console to see its html code
  • use the inspector to pick elements (the title, a list, a link)
  • Read the code, and write it on your neocities site. It's important that you write it, not just copy-paste it, to really grasp the bits
  • Repeat with more and moro complex sites