nostalgia
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Nostalgia is when someone reflects on the past, a feeling that some IndieWeb community members show with regard to older, more user-friendly websites.
- Note: nostalgia is not the same as "retro". See retro for that.
IndieWeb Examples
capjamesg
capjamesg has experimented with a retro theme on his website. This was accessible at retro.jamesg.blog, but was since taken down because it involved creating a separate build of his website which was had to maintain.
The retro theme was hosted on a subdomain because his site is static and the retro code involves HTML code changes. Implementing such a theme on a static site using JavaScript would be more difficult and would mean the layout of a page is contingent upon JavaScript loading, something capjamesg wants to avoid.
The retro theme is inspired by websites from the early 2000s web.
Here is an image of the retro site:
Ana Rodrigues
Ana Rodrigues wrote a while back wondering about why she feel nostalgia about the "old Web" and how it relates to her core values: Overthinking my nostalgia.
Add yourself
- Add yourself here⦠(see this for more details)
Subjects of Nostalgia
Members of the IndieWeb community, and those who have used the web since its early days, may feel nostalgic toward one of the following changes in the web:
- The previous simplicity of websites.
- The state of privacy on the web before advertising companies and trackers became mainstream.
- A time when blogs dominated online conversations.
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In general, any attribute of the web that has been lost in time, or can no longer be experienced to the same degree on the modern web, can be a subject of nostalgia.
Brainstorming
RSS nostlagia
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Semi-frequently someone will bring up how great things were when there were more RSS readers. Or why can't we just use RSS to replace social media. Both are inaccurate rose-colored memories and worth citing as well as debunking.
There is a bunch of source material in to-do that could be used to create a RSS nostalgia page.
Articles and posts
- 2021-10-29: https://twitter.com/terronk/status/1454096103398203397
- "So after we launched our interactive command line website at http://root.vc, some people (*cough* investors) said it was confusing and they wanted a βsimple website with tables of your portfolio companies.β
Um, so. Careful what you ask for.
https://root.vc/welcome.htm" @terronk
- "So after we launched our interactive command line website at http://root.vc, some people (*cough* investors) said it was confusing and they wanted a βsimple website with tables of your portfolio companies.β
- 2022-02-07: https://twitter.com/rstevens/status/1490505782777069571 (Internet Archive version)
- "I liked the internet better when it was websites." @rstevens
