The internet used to be ✨fun✨ I’ve been meaning to write some kind of Important Thinkpiece™ on the glory days of the early internet, but every time I sit down to do it, I find another, better piece that someone else has already written. So for now, here’s a collection of articles that to some degree answer the question “Why have a personal website?” with “Because it’s fun, and the internet used to be fun.” If you’ve written something that feels like it belongs here—especially if your voice is one that’s frequently underrepresented—I’d be interested to read it! Holler at me via email (kwon at fastmail.com), or on Mastodon ([1] mastodon.social/@rjkwon). Article Author Date Date added published ↓ [2]Blogs Are Dead. Long Live Blogs! [3]Gersande La 2023-03-26 2024-03-03 Flèche [4]Surfing the Old Web [5]Juan Villela 2023-01-11 2024-03-03 [6]Why Personal Blogging Still Rules [7]Mike Grindle 2023-04-12 2024-03-03 [8]L'informatique, c'était mieux avant [9]Richard Dern 2022-01-21 2024-03-03 (Computing was better before) [10]shite: static sites from shell [11]Aditya Athalye 2022-03-08 2024-03-03 [12]Desktops.zip - Some thoughts on [13]Simone 2023-08-14 2024-03-03 websites that look like desktops Marzulli [14]Reviving Ye Olde Personal Home [15]Dominik Rabiej 2019-06-30 2024-03-03 Page [16]Digital Homes and Neighborhoods [17]Jake Weber 2023-05-23 2024-03-03 [18]Game of Content [19]Deep H. Dave 2021-03-09 2024-03-03 [20]The Internet Changed My Life [21]Maxime 2022-01-19 2024-03-03 Chevalier-Boisvert [22]Social Websites [23]Matt Stein 2024-02-06 2024-03-03 [24]The Web is Fantastic [25]Robb Knight 2023-12-28 2024-03-03 [26]Into the Personal Website-Verse [27]Matthias Ott 2019-05-12 2024-03-03 [28]Splitting the Web [29]Ploum 2023-08-01 2024-03-03 [30]Do You Remember the Internet [31]dear talula 2022-02-19 2024-03-03 Before Social Media? [32]Blog Bookmark Rot [33]Skelly 2024-02-17 2024-03-03 [34]Let Us Build a New Web [35]Brad Enslen 2018-09-13 2024-03-03 [36]Where have all the websites gone? [37]Jason 2024-01-08 2024-03-03 Velazquez [38]Ruminating on Walled Gardens [39]Brandon 2024-02-16 2024-03-03 [40]My website is a shifting house [41]Laurel next to a river of knowledge. What Schwulst 2018-05-21 2024-02-11 could yours be? [42]Rediscovering the Old Internet [43]Noisy 2023-09-07 2024-02-11 Vibe Deadlines [44]Click around, find out [45]John Hoare 2024-01-21 2024-02-11 [46]The Bullshit Web [47]Nick Heer 2018-11-30 2024-02-11 [48]The old internet [49]Rebecca Toh 2020-01-16 2024-02-11 [50]Computers: An Invocation for Soft [51]Katherine Yang 2023-09-01 2024-02-11 Tech [52]i really love the (hipster) [53]Judah 2023-02-02 2024-02-11 internet [54]Poor man's web [55]Serge Zaitsev 2021-04-27 2024-02-11 [56]The web is yours [57]James G 2024-01-06 2024-02-11 [58]Refuge in blogs and the IndieWeb [59]Robert Kingett 2023-10-17 2024-02-11 [60]I Love the Web [61]fLaMEd 2021-04-06 2024-02-11 [62]a personal manifesto [63]Simone 2023-04-20 2024-01-04 Silvestroni [64]Everyone Should Blog, And That [65]Alexandra 2023-12-30 2024-01-04 Includes You [66]My website as a home [67]Nico Chilla 2023-11-13 2024-01-04 [68]The Web Revival [69]Melon 2023-11-10 2024-01-04 [70]Make your own independent website [71]Victoria Drake 2021-01-16 2024-01-04 [72]Why the Indie Web movement is so [73]Dan Gillmor 2014-04-25 2024-01-04 important [74]It’s Time to Get Personal [75]Laura Kalbag 2019-12-09 2024-01-04 [76]Please for the love of Blarg, [77]Jay Springett 2019-12-14 2024-01-04 Start a Blog [79]Spencer Chang [78]Taking an Internet Walk [80]Kristoffer -- 2023-11-12 Tjalve [81]tiny internets [82]Spencer Chang -- 2023-11-12 [83]You Should Have a Website [84]Mark Murphy -- 2023-11-12 [85]Notes on the small web [86]Felix 2022-09-10 2023-10-24 Pleşoianu [87]The Quiet Web [88]Brian 2021-02-12 2023-10-24 Koberlein [89]Rediscovering the Old Internet [90] 2023-09-07 2023-10-24 Vibe noisydeadlines.net [91]Soft tech [92]Helena -- 2023-10-24 Jaramillo [93]How to fix the internet [94]Katie 2023-10-17 2023-10-19 Notopoulos [95]Social Internet Is Dead. Get Over [96]Om Malik 2023-10-15 2023-10-18 It. [97]Build your own website! [98]Devastatia del 2023-07-09 2023-10-16 Gato [99]The Importance of Personal [100]Hayden White 2023-08-29 2023-10-16 Websites [101]why the web? [102]Justin Hall -- 2023-09-30 [103]Exploring the Personal Web [104] 2023-05-06 2023-09-30 foreverliketh.is [105]Why you should have a blog (and [106]Leticia 2020-06-21 2023-09-30 write in it) Portella [107]My 20th anniversary of blogging! [108]Tracy Durnell 2023-09-23 2023-09-30 [109]Bix's story of his internet [110]Bix Frankonis 2020-02-24 2023-09-18 [111]About me (localghost) [112]Sophie Koonin -- 2023-09-12 [113]At home on the internet [114]Johnny -- 2023-09-12 Rodgers [115]How I experience web today [116]Li Guangyi -- 2023-09-12 [117]About this website [118]Zinzy Waleson -- 2023-09-12 Geene [119]How the Blog Broke the Web [120]Amy Hoy -- 2023-09-12 [121]I miss the internet. [122]Joan 2023-07-07 2023-09-12 Westenberg [123]Every person on the planet should [124]Amin 2023-07-06 2023-09-12 have their own website Eftegarie [125]Eight years of blogging [126]Paweł Grzybek 2023-03-11 2023-09-12 [127]Blogging is alive and well [128]Colin Devroe 2023-01-11 2023-09-12 [129]The Year of the Personal Website [130]Matthias Ott 2023-01-06 2023-09-12 [131]Bring back personal blogging [132]Monique Judge 2022-12-31 2023-09-12 [133]Passionless Web [134]Manuel 2022-08-16 2023-09-12 Moreale [135]Building a Digital Homestead, Bit [136]Tom Critchlow 2022-03-08 2023-09-12 by Brick [137]Early Web Design Helped a [138]Nika Simovich Generation Express Themselves Online. Fisher 2022-03-08 2023-09-12 How Do We Capture That Feeling Again? [139]The Joys and Sorrows of [140]"Cheapskate" 2022-03-06 2023-09-12 Maintaining a Personal Website [141]On building a home on the web [142]Daniël van 2022-02-25 2023-09-12 der Winden [143]How Websites Die [144]Wesley 2022-02-21 2023-09-12 Aptekar-Cassels [145]“Tom had us all doing front-end [146]Kate M. web development”: a nostalgic (re) Miltner 2021-10-07 2023-09-12 imagining of Myspace [147]Ysabel Gerrard [148]Why Personal Websites are [149]Chuck Carroll 2021-03-25 2023-09-12 Important [150]The Value of a Personal Site [151]Marc 2021-03-15 2023-09-12 [152]The small web is beautiful [153]Ben Hoyt 2021-03-01 2023-09-12 [154]envisioning my homepage as an [155]Winnie Lim 2020-11-22 2023-09-12 online therapeutic space [156]Hunting the Nearly-Invisible [157]"Cheapskate" 2020-08-27 2023-09-12 Personal Website [158]What is the Small Web? 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