Making a Poetic Web
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- A website after all, is fundamentally a vessel. It doesn’t even have to serve ‘content’. It doesn’t have to be shared out to the whole world; it can be a link that only your friends have, or you can keep it all to yourself. It can have pictures and text and other links across multiple pages and even custom interactions, or it can just be a Google Doc. You can gather at a website from anywhere in the world in a single click, and begin sharing different entrypoints to your website by sharing the URL. You can have multiple websites for specific purposes, it doesn’t have to host everything. Publishing’ your website doesn’t have to mean that it’s finished; you are free to make an edit and have it appear instantaneously a second later. Or you can never touch it again and let it die. You can remove anything at once. You design the environment.
- A poetic web is one that I imagine to be about creativity, expression, and the handmade. A lot of these thoughts resist the current state of the web: incredibly centralized, capital-driven, attention-seeking—far from what we associate with art.
title: “Making a Poetic Web”
author: “chiaski.github.io”
url: ”https://chiaski.github.io/poeticweb/index.html”
date: 2023-12-19
source: hypothesis
tags: media/articles
Making a Poetic Web
Metadata
Highlights
- A website after all, is fundamentally a vessel. It doesn’t even have to serve ‘content’. It doesn’t have to be shared out to the whole world; it can be a link that only your friends have, or you can keep it all to yourself. It can have pictures and text and other links across multiple pages and even custom interactions, or it can just be a Google Doc. You can gather at a website from anywhere in the world in a single click, and begin sharing different entrypoints to your website by sharing the URL. You can have multiple websites for specific purposes, it doesn’t have to host everything. Publishing’ your website doesn’t have to mean that it’s finished; you are free to make an edit and have it appear instantaneously a second later. Or you can never touch it again and let it die. You can remove anything at once. You design the environment.
- A poetic web is one that I imagine to be about creativity, expression, and the handmade. A lot of these thoughts resist the current state of the web: incredibly centralized, capital-driven, attention-seeking—far from what we associate with art.