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+title = "Send links to your friends and make the Web a better place"
+author = ["Michał Sapka"]
+date = 2024-02-29T22:49:00+01:00
+categories = ["blog"]
+draft = false
+weight = 2001
+abstract = "The missing part of web ressurgence"
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+On the web of the past we had no all-knowing algorithm.
+To find something on the web, we were limited to two possibilities: to search for it, or to get it from other folks.
+And yet the web flourished not despite but due to that way.
+We've discovered cool, new places all the time.
+
+As you may have noticed, I love what the web _was_.
+Not the platform-cum-spam-infested thing we have today, but that crazy intertwined _web_ of small websites.
+What _the web_ was 20 years ago, we now call _small web,_ or the _indieweb[^fn:1]_.
+And it is beautiful.
+We may have more websites than we ever had, but discovering them is near impossible.
+Google became useless, and no other search engine has yet reached its quality of the past.
+It's not that they are worse, but the evil agents of _cyberspace_ are much more effective.
+Spam sites, Reddit, Wikipedia, etm.[^fn:2] dominate, and it's near impossible to get significant traffic from search.
+
+{{< img-r "icq.png" >}}
+ICQ logo.
+Personally I used "Gadu Gadu", which was a polish response.
+{{< /img-r >}}
+
+But we had the ace in our sleeves: we were not alone.
+We knew people who were into the same things that we were into.
+This means that we shared links to interesting sites as we knew they also may find them cool.
+For a long time, finding an actually _cool_ link and keeping for ourselves was unnatural.
+
+Today, people go to some big platform website and get _content_ shoved up their faces.
+Unfortuntelly, this is not the good part of the web.
+It's either SEO optimized beyond being of any quality, or simply promoted content.
+A small writer (like me) has no chance to be visible there.
+
+The small web is born from passion, not from chase of profit.
+Only we can make it flourish like it used to flourish.
+Simply sending a cool link from time to time to your friends is enough.
+
+So: **[First Operating System -- Part One](https://www.wovenmemories.net/2023/10/30/First.Operating.System_Part.1.html) on [Woven Memories](https://www.wovenmemories.net/index.html)** is an amazing introduction to how Operating Systems came to be.
+It is one of blogs where new posts are much to rare, as each is a treat.
+
+[^fn:1]: Vide [Indiewebcamp](https://indieweb.org/).
+[^fn:2]: _A Latin abbreviation for the literal translation of "and shit", specifically "et merda". Similar to "etc"., and "ie"._
+    Love it!
+    And yes, I have huge problems with Wikipedia.
+    I'll write about it someday.