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The wiki of a movement for owning your own website: guides, tools and real examples of people publishing on their own domains.
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IndieWeb sits in Retro Web under Retro, filed as rabbit hole.
About this category: Simulated TV channels by decade, old operating systems and the specific texture of an interface designed for a CRT.
Yes. IndieWeb is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use IndieWeb without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file IndieWeb as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Rabbit hole": Clear your evening. We warned you.
A hand-built indie web hub with a forum, a club of personal sites and guides to making your own homepage the old-fashioned way.
Noughties television as it actually was, which is more unsettling than the eighties version because you remember most of it.
A simulated television set showing nothing but 1980s programming and adverts, complete with channel dial and static between stations.
The same idea moved a decade forward. Flip channels through the nineties and land somewhere between a cartoon and a cereal advert.
Step-by-step build guides for anything from a bookshelf to a plasma cutter, written by the people who actually made the thing.
Books, films, software, concerts and the web itself, archived at a scale no other institution has come close to.
The Archive's Flash collection, running thousands of dead games inside an emulator so the whole era stays clickable.
Archived research papers, including preprints and journals that have since folded, kept readable rather than merely cited.
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