What are you hoping to work on for SWS? I think there are two things I currently want to work on:
- my personal fanfic archive: I want to find all my old fics from everywhere (old CDs, hard drives, paper notebooks, wayback machine etc) and add them to my site.
- a "shrine" or fansite about Postcrossing which is something I love doing. I want to share info about it and my postcard collection etc.
However, I am also the kind of person that will say "I will work on -this specific thing-" and then I will randomly decide to work on something completely unrelated that I didn't even realise I wanted to do. So, we'll see I guess.
What interests you about the small/indie web, and how did you learn about or get into it? For me its partly nostalgia. I was making websites way back in the late 90s. My first site was on Geocities (I was actually a "community leader" on geocities in the Area51 neighbourhood). I had a personal page until probably around 2008, and I had numerous fansites mostly related to star trek voyager and stargate. It was always something I enjoyed, I think for me creating a site was a fun way to be creative. I stopped for a while after that, real life etc. But last year I came across neocities and the small web movement and I realised how much I missed making sites, so I made my own personal page at neocities and have been enjoying working on that, learning all the new html and css (it has changed a lot since the 90s lol)
I think its also though, that the internet has lost a lot of individuality. Site all look the same and it sometimes feels like there are only a dozen sites to visit when it used to feel like there were thousands. Since I started participating in the small web again I have discovered so many new and interesting sites and they all have have their individual flair to them. And I think the small web lets people have a voice, and gives people a place where they can be 100% who they are instead of conforming to the standards of social media. That can only be a positive.
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Probably my personal site.
What are you hoping to work on for SWS?
I think there are two things I currently want to work on:
- my personal fanfic archive: I want to find all my old fics from everywhere (old CDs, hard drives, paper notebooks, wayback machine etc) and add them to my site.
- a "shrine" or fansite about Postcrossing which is something I love doing. I want to share info about it and my postcard collection etc.
However, I am also the kind of person that will say "I will work on -this specific thing-" and then I will randomly decide to work on something completely unrelated that I didn't even realise I wanted to do. So, we'll see I guess.
What interests you about the small/indie web, and how did you learn about or get into it?
For me its partly nostalgia. I was making websites way back in the late 90s. My first site was on Geocities (I was actually a "community leader" on geocities in the Area51 neighbourhood). I had a personal page until probably around 2008, and I had numerous fansites mostly related to star trek voyager and stargate. It was always something I enjoyed, I think for me creating a site was a fun way to be creative. I stopped for a while after that, real life etc. But last year I came across neocities and the small web movement and I realised how much I missed making sites, so I made my own personal page at neocities and have been enjoying working on that, learning all the new html and css (it has changed a lot since the 90s lol)
I think its also though, that the internet has lost a lot of individuality. Site all look the same and it sometimes feels like there are only a dozen sites to visit when it used to feel like there were thousands. Since I started participating in the small web again I have discovered so many new and interesting sites and they all have have their individual flair to them. And I think the small web lets people have a voice, and gives people a place where they can be 100% who they are instead of conforming to the standards of social media. That can only be a positive.