A Handmade Web

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2015 · handmade web / web culture · original online
WhatEssay-manifesto on hand-made web pages.
Why nowThe web needs human-scale pages again.
Statusoriginal online
Found inpre-platform culture

J. R. Carpenter argues for websites as handmade objects: small, inspectable, idiosyncratic pages made by people rather than poured through industrial publishing systems.

WHY IT STILL MATTERSThe modern web keeps converting pages into product surfaces. This essay quietly reopens the older possibility: HTML as craft, place, voice, and human-scale publishing.
Best opened when the internet starts feeling like polished infrastructure with nobody’s fingerprints left on it.
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