More than a decade ago, gopher took the Net by storm. The Web stole its thunder soon after, but enthusiasts are still keeping it alive -- and bringing it into the future. By Lore Sjöberg.

Old technology is any tech that’s, well… old. Small technology is any tech that has a small footprint: doesn’t require a powerful machine to run, doesn’t have a lot of bloat, doesn’t have anti-features like spyware and tracking. Technology that is old enough is almost always small because, by modern standards, that’s all that was possible back then. Some small tech is old, some is modern. Embedded systems are an example of modern small tech development in many cases.

I write about productivity, human-computer interaction, and programming.

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I’m quite interested in concepts of the “Small Web” and adjacent topics, but it is definitely true that “small web” itself is a vague term that different people use to talk about different kinds of projects. What unites all these different concepts …

The danger and irritations of the modern web have unleashed a movement dedicated to creating a safer and simpler alternative. The old Gopher networ...

When social media gets to be too much, Neocities is there

It’s not what technology does that matters, but who it does it for and who it does it to

My first online interaction, circa 1992, fascinated but also terrified me. I should have taken it as a warning. At the time, computers were just machines you had in your basement. They had programs in them, and you would sit in a chair and use those programs for a while, then go do something else. The whole time you used

Let's use the internet like it's 2005

AndreGarzia.com website

Thanks to the increasing disillusionment with today's Internet, many individuals are creating their own websites. Though some are specifically designed to look like websites from the 1990's, all are original, creative expressions of their owners' personalities, something that is rarely tolerated on the websites of the corporate Internet.

Hello! We’re a tiny and independent two-person not-for-profit based in Ireland. We are building the Small Web.

As I’ve been thinking and writing about privacy and decentralization lately, I had a conversation with a colleague this week, and he commented about how loss of privacy is related to loss of …

I’m going to lead with the technical punch line, and then explain it: Yggdrasil Network is an opportunistic mesh that can be deployed privately or as part of a global-scale network. Each node…