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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.
Unfortunately, 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.
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