Sublime

There should be lots of different, human-scale alternative experiences on the internet that offer up home-cooked, locally-grown, ethically-sourced, code-to-table alternatives to the factory-farmed junk food of the internet. And they should be weird.

This is end-user programming, a vision for empowered computing pursued by bright-eyed computer science visionaries.

We’ve almost forgotten that links are powerful, and that restraining links through artificial scarcity is an absurdly coercive behavior.

or an entire generation, the imagination of people making the web has been hemmed in by the control of a handful of giant companies that have had enormous control over things like search results, or app stores, or ad platforms, or payment systems. Going back to the more free-for-all nature of the Nineties internet could mean we see a proliferation ... See more

But amidst it all, the human web, the one made by regular people, is resurgent.