Old Web, Open and DIY Spaces Online: Why and How?

Most of these are small-scale, personal or semi-public spaces and communities rather than professional formalized platforms, so please interact with them with that in mind!

Inspiration

• Low Tech Magazine - critique of 'net bloat, already-existing utopias
• Experience and memories: forums, neopets, personal sites
• Resisting Platformization & Professionalization: commercial "platforms" are presented as opportunities to monetize passion work or increase your audience, but they often work in terms of centralizing attention & limiting control
• Anti-Professionalism, Open and Collaborative Game Communities: Bitsy

Old Web

• Neocities - Building my own Low-Tech portfolio site
• Low-Tech Webring - Slow, Low-Tech Site Directory connecting people with similar interests
• Onionring - Simple JS webring management tool
• Wayback Machine / GIF Cities - Researching/Reviving Old Web Memories

Fostering Open and DIY Platforms

• Bitsy Tools and Hacks - Openness & Modularity
• Lockdowns Happened: What do we want/need from a social space?
• Zone - Social space around music/video sharing, avatars & chat (Primarily led by candle)
• History of Zone in a Bitsy Game - Dialogue between needs / implementation
• Kool Tools - Other iterative, self-contained, browser-based tools and spaces by candle
• Long term goals: Distributed and User-Serviceable
• Plaintext Distro - Archiving / Promoting these ideas through other DIY infrastructure (Zine Fairs)

What are they for?

• Low Tech/Lightweight
• Distributed/Non-commercial
• Preservation/Sustainability
• Fit to task/User control

If you have any more questions or want to share a space you made, contact me through itch.io, twitter, or my website!