On Web Revival
This is a term I see often, since I've started browsing a certain corner of the Internet, the one that includes Neocities and similar such places based around early web nostalgia. I was led into this retro-web when I began browsing the Agora Road forum, which I was introduced to by someone on the Discord server of the YouTuber Formscapes , who makes videos about spirituality and unorthodox science. The nostalgic old-web aesthetic full of its gorgeous pixels, sharply defined repeating patterns, shamelessly filling backgrounds and adorning the interface. The defining characteristic: integration. And there's a consensus among the entities here, felt, that the Internet in general should be like this. They imagine each person as independent, probably having their own website instead of relying on monopolized social media. The image is of a discernible netscape with communities and people integrated and separated by the structure of the Internet itself. I know intuitiv...