#BurgeonLab #WeekNotes 008 is out.
2025: Week 51/52 (Dec 15 – 21)
https://burgeonlab.com/weeknotes/2025/w51/

#blogging #blogs #smallweb #indieweb #blogpost #smolweb #weeknote #personalBlog

@didje I had a hard look at Gemini, but you might as well opt for the #smolweb instead and benefit from existing browsers. Gopher is lean mean and so easy to write articles for. Pure text is the way to go.

gopher://spike.nagatha.fr

The latest comment from @adele about Firefox inspired me to write this phlog/log entry.

Firefox and the useless box.

https://spike.nagatha.fr/log/2025/2025-12-21-20-08-Firefox-and-the-useless-box.txt

gopher://spike.nagatha.fr:70/0/phlog/2025/2025-12-21-20-08-Firefox-and-the-useless-box.txt

#gopher #smolweb #firefox

@gardiner_bryant @killyourfm

Oh my, and the site actually gives #smolweb browsers like #Dillo some love! Wow!

• Use a terminal browser like w3m, links, lynx, or chawan when doing some quick-and-dirty lookups, or when you don't feel like faffing about with a mouse at all
• Use #Dillo for blogs, #smolweb sites, and sites that you don't want eating your cpu if you load them in a full browser
• Optionally use #NetSurf for the few sites you know work better with it
• Use #Firefox with your own custom settings or a fork like #LibreWolf for things that really require full JS and that kind of thing
• Use a Blink-based browser like #Falkon or #UnGoogledChromium for the rare cases where a website just doesn't like firefox

Is there a service that can analyze people's RSS reading feeds and visualize the connections between them?

#IndieWeb #RSS #socialNetworks #feeds #smolWeb #deFacebook

My gopheresque web site is nearly there:

https://spike.nagatha.fr

It comprises of a single index.php file that is added into each directory.

#gopher #smolweb

I like the Gemini Protocol, but — I think too many of the other small-net protocols try to mimic Gemini.

One alternative path that small-net & small-web communities could try is —

Make a new version of the HTTP protocol.

One that includes small-net values.

A small-net HTTP (HTTP/1.4 ?) server could be backwards compatible, such that extant web-browsers could see something (even if the experience is better in a small-net web-browser).

#HTTP #HTTP_1_4 #smallNet #smallWeb #smolNet #smolWeb

#BurgeonLab #WeekNotes 007 is out.
2025: Week 50/52 (Dec 8 – 14)
https://burgeonlab.com/weeknotes/2025/w50/

#blogging #blogs #smallweb #indieweb #blogpost #smolweb #weeknote #personalBlog

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I think some of the hopes for Small-Net & Small-Web from its fans, enthusiasts, and advocates is —

• the return of individuals creating and publishing niche narrowly focused sites,

• removing the modern Gate-Keepers.

These obviously aren't the only desires from those in the Small-Net & Small-Web scene and social-movement, but — I think these 2 are interesting because they are related to the origin of the World-Wide-Web.

#smallNet #smallWeb #smolNet #smolWeb #WorldWideWeb

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The Web wasn't the start of the social-movement to get rid of these (historical) Gate-Keepers.

(The social-movement goes back to at least BBS and other similar networks — i.e., what, for regular people, was before the Internet.)

But the Web did have a big impact on removing these Gate-Keepers. A BIG one!

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#smallNet #smallWeb #smolNet #smolWeb #WorldWideWeb

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Prior to the Web, if you wanted to publish something you created and reach a mass audience or a community — most of the time you would have to go through the TV industry, the film industry, the radio industry, or the newspaper industry.

These were the Gate-Keepers of the time.

In practice, only those with wealth or power were able to get permission from these Gate-Keepers.

For most of the people in the world — this wasn't an option

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#smallNet #smallWeb #smolNet #smolWeb #WorldWideWeb

4/

I think people nowadays are unaware of just how big of a deal that latter part was — being able to write and publish content you created and reach an audience!

It was a huge deal!

As much as the Web was a technology, it was also a social-movement.

Part of the social-movement of the Web getting rid of Gate-Keeper.

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#smallNet #smallWeb #smolNet #smolWeb #WorldWideWeb

3/

As I said, these niche web-sites about some narrow topic were one of the draws of the Internet on the 1990s and early 2000s.

Both reading what others wrote about niche topics you also cared about and perhaps also obsessed over.

But also, being able to create your own niche content on the (narrow) interests you obsessed over.

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#smallNet #smallWeb #smolNet #smolWeb #WorldWideWeb

2/

These niche web-sites about some narrow topic of the 1990s and early 2000s were one of the draws of the Internet back then.

(And, to put this into context, remember that the mass-Internet, where regular people used the Internet, didn't really start until about the years 1998 to 2001.)

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#smallNet #smallWeb #smolNet #smolWeb #WorldWideWeb

1/

The Web of the 1990s and early 2000s (then called the World-Wide-Web) was different (in quality) from the Web of today.

One interesting thing from that era was that — there were many individuals who (on their own) created whole web-sites about some (narrow) topic each of them obsessed over. Something that each of them raged to master and document — and then published to the world (via the World-Wide-Web).

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#smallNet #smallWeb #smolNet #smolWeb #WorldWideWeb

I solved a problem with the #Intel HD Graphics 520 on my #Thinkpad X270, namely DRI3 was not enabled in #xlibre and provoking warnings from mpv and odd results from glxgears.

You can also now read all about it in my #gopher phlog via #smolweb too. Hehe.

https://spike.nagatha.fr/log/2025/2025-12-12-10-10-Note-to-self-dr3-not-supported-on-X270-solved.txt

gopher://spike.nagatha.fr:70/0/phlog/2025/2025-12-12-10-10-Note-to-self-dr3-not-supported-on-X270-solved.txt