🔖 Bookmarked: How to Surf the Web in 2025, and Why You Should https://www.raptitude.com/2025/06/how-to-surf-the-web-in-2025-and-why-you-should/

Algorithmic scrolling killed surfing, but David Cain reckons the old web is still there if you go looking.

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How to Surf the Web in 2025, and Why You Should

Just as it’s still possible (though seldom necessary) to ride a horse, it is still possible to surf the internet. It’s a thrill not yet lost to time.

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🔖 Bookmarked: Have a Fucking Website https://www.otherstrangeness.com/2026/03/14/have-a-fucking-website/

\"The internet was built on websites that linked to one another\", don't rent your space inside the walled gardens.

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Have a Fucking Website - Other Strangeness — merritt k

For fuck's sake

Other Strangeness — merritt k

🔖 Bookmarked: Joyful web design https://jamesg.blog/2026/05/01/joyful-web-design

Treating playfulness on the web as the point, not a frivolous extra you tack on later.

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Joyful web design | James' Coffee Blog

🔖 Bookmarked: Static sites killed the blog comment star, but maybe old tech and a smaller web can resurrect them https://www.thisdaysportion.com/posts/static-sites-killed-comments/

This Day’s Portion argues that the move to static sites didn’t just simplify publishing, but quietly stripped away comment sections and the everyday conversations that once lived on personal blogs.

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Static sites killed the blog comment star, but maybe old tech and a smaller web can resurrect them

Blog comments became unpopular because they weren’t worth the hassle of moderation, and even became a means to attack people. But a technological shift also did for them.