Like fuck all the proprietary junk and versioning, and just have a bare bones HTML ASCII extranet designed to be simple and without any bugs to patch? Obviously a naive question.

But seriously, the 56k dialup world with Napster GeoCities and AOL Instant Messenger was better. Add capacitive touch screens, current data throughput infra, and lithium batteries to 1999 and we are peak Matrix internet territory. Yahoo and net navigator were better than chrome stalkerware and google digislaver fascism.

  • SwooshBakery624 [they/them]@programming.devEnglish
    19·
    8 hours ago

    https://512kb.club/

    The 512KB Club is a collection of performance-focused web pages from across the Internet. To qualify your website must satisfy both of the following requirements:

    1. It must be an actual site that contains a reasonable amount of information, not just a couple of links on a page (more info here).
    2. Your total UNCOMPRESSED web resources must not exceed 512KB.

    https://geminiprotocol.net/ (The site’s certificate has expired. I really hope they fix it.)

    Gemini is a group of technologies similar to the ones that lie behind your familiar web browser. Using Gemini, you can explore an online collection of written documents which can link to other written documents. The main difference is that Gemini approaches this task with a strong philosophy of “keep it simple” and “less is enough”.

    Gemini might be of interest to you if you:

    • Are sick and tired of nagging newsletter subscription pop-ups, obnoxious adverts, autoplaying videos that chase you as you scroll and other misfeatures of the modern web
    • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      6 hours ago

      Signed certificates cost money. Notepad++ had a similar problem where they lost their certificate recently. They temprarily added a self-signed certificate until they could find a sponsor for a signed certificate. I think they fixed that now

    • Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloudEnglish
      2·
      6 hours ago

      I qualify for the 512kb club, that’s mint!

      Going to add my site to the list

      Also it’s great to see sites that don’t have a butt load of JS and ads and other crap!