Whose “human web” is this? The collection seems to lean heavily toward the mainstream, commercial, silicon valley web. It leaves out much of the strange, personal, experimental web. Where are the works of artists like Olia Lialina?
Sure! You don't really need to join the discord (it's just extra like JavaScript).
We will be writing at 2-3PM EST so you can just join us telepathically and if you feel like sharing what you created leave it in a comment here or email us a link [1]. We would love to see!
Sure! We understand that JavaScript and frameworks are nice to have but it feels like everyone depends on them too much these days.
It would be pretty cool if someone that has never made a website before, learned a little HTML, wrote an index.html, and published it on the www. Maybe that person never learns CSS, JS, or any framework and that's totally fine. We think that the simplicity and directness of HTML is what makes it powerful.
Looking forward to writing HTML together tomorrow at 2PM EST. You can join our discord to share your writing/websites [1] during the freewrite.
Also we just wanted to share a little more about HTML Energy. It’s still coming together but here are some of our big dreams…
- Create a #web0 movement: We would love to see a new movement around web0 (coding HTML by hand, personal websites, webrings, etc). Basically anything that brings websites instead of platforms into the spotlight again. We are actually pretty inspired by all the energy that is going into web3 right now. What if that same energy and capital was going into web0? What could we create together?
- Rebrand HTML [2]: Some people think that HTML is outdated or hard to use. We think it’s actually pretty straightforward and really powerful stuff. Stripping away all the paint (CSS/JS) really makes the content the focus and there's a raw sincerity to an unstyled page. Our goal is just to get people excited about learning & writing HTML and this is our attempt at making it "cool."
- Getting HTML into schools: What if more people knew how to self host/publish? Would we depend on big platforms less? Would people begin making more small community websites to chat with their friends?
- Create another season of our podcast [3]. Last season we talked with so many incredible people that are trying to make the web a better place. Let us know if you listened and would want another season.