Small web

This section contains articles on technologies that assist in retaining a personal, non-commercial corner of the Internet. The terms "small web", "smolweb", and "IndieWeb" all denote the use of ordinary web protocols and formats (HTTP, HTML), but in specific ways. Gemini is a relatively new, very simple protocol that uses specific servers and browsers, running alongside the regular web.

Small web, IndieWeb, Gemini... A guide to the retro-web (Mar 2026)

An outline of some grass-roots reform movements that are trying to humanize the Internet

Categories: small web, retrocomputing

Can Project Gemini rewind the Web thirty years? (publ. Mar 2021, edit. Mar 2026)

The modern World-Wide Web is broken. Is Gemini the repair?

Categories: small web

Hosting a Gemini capsule on a virtual private server (publ. Mar 2026, edit. Mar 2026)

How to get a Gemini capsule with its own domain name.

Categories: small web

The Gemini Protocol in 2026: growing, but still not setting the Internet aflame (publ. Feb 2026, edit. Mar 2026)

The Gemini protocol has been around for over five years, but the world-wide web remains broken. This articles reviews what's changed for the better over the last five years -- and what hasn't.

Categories: small web

This site is now webmention-aware (publ. Feb 2026, edit. Mar 2026)

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Categories: small web

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