Is it time to replace the term Web Revival??

[JINSBEK]

<3 I love this discussion. I love the broader Web Revival movement, and I love even more granularity. To be honest, I've felt for a few years now (three?) out of the broader Web Revival community, not because anything that Melon did (lol), but because so much of what I was doing with my newest website was not nostalgic or looking to the past Geocities. I wanted to make something that looked like a glossy magazine, which made it too "sleek" to be compared with other Geocities-like websites, and too information-dense and conversational than a typical "glossy" modern website that focuses on funnelling you into some call-to-action. The introduction and usage of granular terms is great to me because I now have a way to describe the spirit or design ethos of it, haha. Recently, I even changed the title of my website from "JINSBEK Art" to "JINSBEK Art Magazine", because it captures better the prominence of textual content and information density, rather than just sounding like an art portfolio... Which it never was solely...

the art historian in me kind of wants to say "post social media" internet. because the "techniques" (small websites, webrings) and mindset used are pre-social media, BUT historically speaking, we're no longer in those early internet days. the movement wouldn't have been a movement at all in early internet, since there wasn't anything else but that ; the current internet as it is now is the motivation behind the movement

"Post-social media" is succinct and captures a lot of what inspires the discontent in a lot of people using the Internet--not only the people making their own personal websites, but also the rise of the dumbphone movement, and so on. Thank you for introducing that term. I think I'll be using it more often from now on.

Hm, yeah I like Indie Web and Internet Underground myself, but I think ideally there should be a variety of terms that people adopt depending on what they're trying to do with their internet presence, just like we do with music genres and art styles. Here are some that would make sense to me:

Punkweb - zine makers, anarchists, anti-capitalists and anti-corporatists
Artweb - independent artists and people who create websites as art experiments
Geoweb - As in Geocities, sites dedicated specifically to that type of nostalgia, 90's style websites

Are zines naturally punk? Haha. But I get what you're saying. The move away from big, advertisement-driven publishing (I really hate whatadvertising has done to the blogging scene) to independent publishing is a big part of what makes it "punk". And I love the terms "Artweb", and "Geoweb", too!

I've often referred to it as "the Ugly net" to my friends who aren't really clued in. I like to think of it as an endearing term, I sort it see it as a digital kitsch, overly sentimental and garish but you like it because it appeals to you. Maybe Kitsch net or web then too?

Love this term because it describes exactly what I'm not doing. I love the Ugly Net, I love what people did back then with Geocities and what they're doing now. It's kitschy and a bit all over the place but it's genuine and spontaneous.

I introduced the term @VioletHeaven "digital scrapbooking" to @VioletHeaven to help explain to her what a personal website is, and could be. She latched onto it immediately. I haven't really seen anyone else refer to their websites as a "digital scrapbook", but maybe I'm not looking in the right circles.