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The Small Web

  • Rediscovering the Small Web (2020) [Post]
    • “Most websites today are built like commercial products by professionals and marketers, optimised to draw the largest audience, generate engagement and ‘convert’. A web that is unpolished, often quirky but often also fun, creative and interesting. But there is also a smaller, less-visible web designed by regular people to simply to share their interests and hobbies with the world.“
  • The small web is beautiful (2021) [Post]
    • “In this essay I present a vision for the “small web” as well as the small software and architectures that power it.”
  • Tilde.town [Community]
    • “a community of around 3000 users making art, socializing, and learning on a linux server”
  • The Attention Economy Is Everywhere. Self-Hosting Is the Escape. (2025) [Video]
  • Welcome to the small web (2022) [Page]
    • “An introduction to the movement that’s called the “small web.”
  • The Paper Pilot – Small Web (2024) [Page]
    • “The small web is, at its roots, a response to trends that started with “Web 2.0”.”
  • A Look At The Small Web (2024) [Article]
    • “We All Know What’s Wrong With The Web…”
  • Small web, IndieWeb, Gemini… A guide to the retro-web (2026) [Page]
    • “What I didn’t predict – what I don’t think anybody predicted – was how the web would eventually come to dominate communication. And once it did, it became ripe for commercial exploitation.”
  • Surfing the Small Web (2023) [Page]
    • “I think of it as the space on the web (or on other protocols) focusing on text writing like blogs, and without ads, excess images, platforms, cookies, pop-ups, videos, and the like.”
  • Kagi Small Web [Search Engine]
    • “Imagine the internet like a huge neighborhood. There’s a lot of folks around, but we rarely bump into each other, right?”

My Small Web

My own contributions to the small web.

  • RedRival Small Web Hosting – Free web hosting returns from a name that started in the 90s
  • Simwiki.net – A community for all things simulation, including driving sims, flying sims, city sims, rail sims, and more.

Tech

  • Hacker News – Small web friendly headlines of interesting tech news

Games

  • Good Old Games (GOG) – New and classic video games, without the DRM, with offline downloads as your own copy to keep and run forever, no internet connection required. Prefer GOG, fallback to Steam. Bonus: GOG introduced officially curated mods, easily installable from the GOG.com website or GOG client just like any other game.
  • MS-DOS Software Library at the Internet Archive – “Software for MS-DOS machines that represent entertainment and games. The collection includes action, strategy, adventure and other unique genres of game and entertainment software. Through the use of the EM-DOSBOX in-browser emulator, these programs are bootable and playable.”
  • Classic PC Games at the Internet Archive – “Take a step back in time and revisit your favorite DOS and Windows games… Where possible online play is enabled to enjoy the game directly in your browser. New files are added to this collection on a regular basis.”
  • Internet Arcade at the Internet Archive – “The Internet Arcade is a web-based library of arcade (coin-operated) video games from the 1970s through to the 1990s, emulated in JSMAME, part of the JSMESS software package.”