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Manifesto Table of Contents

  1. Hello
  2. Internet Opinions

HELLO!

I am the young adult coder artist I wanted to be and I always will be and will have been. IT RULES. I'M A FUCKING WEBMASTER.

MAY I INTRODUCE YOU TO MY FRIEND

This is my friend.

They are an internet archivist who lives 70 years in the future. Just 70! You might even meet them one day. They are young and their favorite hobby is internet archiving and they are here with a request to everybody making things on the internet 70 years ago. PLEASE SAVE YOUR OWN POSTS!!!!!!!!!!! Use the Internet Archive save page now function!!!!!!!!! Save everything man. Make your own websites. They're much easier to track and browse than old javascript heavy corporate sites once those servers are down. When a server goes down it's like extinction of an ecosystem, so keep your own posts and thoughts and things in HTML that is EASY to read and archive PLEASE!!!!!!!!!

This is for the far future. Everything requires time and care and devotion unbroken. We're just part of that chain.

I LOVE THE INTERNET! I LOVE MY WEBSITE! I LOVE YOUR WEBSITE!

I love going around and clicking links. This is it babey! This is the internet! Doing a website, doing things on other websites. Reading!!!! Looking. Listening (there's no music on this page though) (but as I'm writing this I'm listening to music over YouTube in the other tab)

I wanted to mention here in this manifesto something that I learned from one of Olia Lialina's talks, end-to-end, p2p, my to me. Personal websites have ALWAYS been counterculture. It was never mainstream nor encouraged to stake out your own personal space on the internet -- at least, not encouraged by opinion leaders and corporate and media officials of the time. Commercialization and walled gardens were always the goals of corporate power for the molding of the internet, and to some degree they have always had them available and marketed.

This is resistance. This is freedom.

Once I followed my old, budding passion to tinker with the curiosity about technology, websites, HTML, CSS, and code, my life changed so quickly. I have felt carried to the height of my artistic fulfillment so far. This has excited and inspired me and driven me like no other skill has yet. This is my domain.

I couldn't start this story without talking about tilde.town. The soul of the internet is communication and community. I found tilde.town randomly through Marginalia Search. I browsed public townie websites and applied to join the town, and then I learned what SSH was.

I was accepted and was officially a townie, and I logged into town through a terminal for the first time. After a lot, a lot, a lot of trial and error, and messing around with files and filesystems and file extensions and such. It really took me a while, I was straight up disoriented, but I got in after I kept trying. I got in and experiencing tilde.town through the terminal was totally different than looking at peoples public_html. There were so many programs!!! commands!!! games!!!! folders and files!!!! on this shared unix machine.

The first thing I did was "town chat" to enter the irc. I came in, and some people were chatting already, and I let them know I was new to town. I had been in IRC channels back a decade ago, but it had been a while, and I was brand new to town and terminal usage and linux and everything. I was treated to them Persuading me on whether vim or emacs was better for text editing... it was PRETTY PASSIONATE. For My First Day. When I was doing my first tinkering edits over sshing in and editing my index.html, I was writing about how they were arguing to me which one was better. Spoiler: I chose vim and fell in love and kept it ever since ^w^

I kept making projects over on tilde.town, and I dabbled and I iterated and I made things out of love and I made tools I use nearly every day. After around a year on tilde.town and a handful of major projects, I found Neocities and decided to start a website here as well. Two little gardens tended in their own ways.

i have developed INTERNET OPINIONS!

"publish to your own site, syndicate elsewhere"

check this shit out
that page from the indieweb wiki gives the hard sell so i won't regurgitate it but i agree. fuck yeah man. this is the way.