How has the web revival community changed your relationship with the internet?

[milo]

I have been thrilled to discover this whole scene. For a long time I was lamenting the fact that the Internet got slowly taken over by corporate types and techy executives shareholder types with no creativity. All social media got distilled down to a minimalist layout and you get to pic a profile pic... yaaaaay.

It's been super refreshing to discover an Internet that actually gives people control of what they create or post.

[di]

I think my relationship with the internet is happier. I find more interesting and neat artistic websites. I feel more inspired by what I see, and I find a lot more stuff that actually makes me feel glad to be alive. Then when I find something I don't like, or I feel burnt out, I just log off and do something else. I don't feel "tethered" to any web revival things as I did with social media, and things don't feel as urgent on the small web.

[tetrisk]

The internet now feels a lot bigger, creative and alive than before. I knew it was possible to make your own website but thought that 1) the learning curve for web dev was way too steep, and 2) that I'd need money to do it (undergraduate lol). There was a time that I so badly yearned for a personal website and tried out Wix and Wordpress, but I just felt really restricted by their drag and drop tools, not to mention the presence of ads and promotional headers since I was using it for free. I was considering opening a Blogger site instead. Months later after giving up, and I accidentally find out about neocities.

Up until that point most of my internet usage was Youtube, Twitter and some Deviantart and Newgrounds. I quickly got in love with the Web Revival. Each website emanates so much personality and genuineness. Building something that is completely yours from the ground up, sharing what you love and care about in whatever way you want, with no algorithmic intervention and optional metrics. I particularly love reading people's About pages and their blogs.

I feel like I'm building a house next to a bunch of other people. If I get tired of working on mine I can always take a stroll and see what other people are making. It's fucking sweet

[Zombiethederg]

It really helped me realize the scale of the internet for me personally, as I was stuck in the slog that was the majority of the internet, being that of Twitter / Tumblr and the slop of "content" that it just constantly shoved into my mouth, but seeing the web revival community has made me realize that ive taken such an infinite, vast canvas for granted. I could have made my own little corner for YEARS, but instead I stuck to regular social media and rotted away without having any kind of fun.

I feel like I had this robbed from me in a sense, yknow? But now that ive discovered it im happier than ever :D

[SiLver]

I think the web revival community has really positively changed my outlook on the internet as a whole, before I was really getting slogged down in the social media loop, Constantly scrolling through my handful of apps, But now I pretty rarely touch those areas, I think this forum and the web revival community as a whole has really helped me stop some bad habits and it has been much better for my mental health and approach to the internet as a whole.

[Junebug]

The answer is that it hasn't. Personalities don't change over the decades, and in any given year the same kinds of people inhabit the web. Web technology is a mere means of expressing such personalities, and most old web technologies have existed with some amount of popularity all this time. Since the web is a means to an end to me, I find websites more desirable than social media, for reasons such as the way the medium forces people to express themselves, the longevity of the information that is expressed, and the aesthetics that are typically involved.

I'm actually pretty indifferent toward web revival as a movement since philosophically it's not particularly aligned with me, but since I have a taste for websites rather than people's Reddit posts or Twitter threads, I go where the sites can be found. More important to me is whether I can find people who have the same interests as me. I just use web revival forums and sites to direct me to those kinds of people, or when I'm looking for web building resources, or need help troubleshooting.