Normal Web

browsing: an achievement, unto itself

let me say something - browsing the Web. I like browsing the Web. 
Sites, small sites, personal sites, static sites, tech sites, writing 
sites, blogs, journals, logs and on and on. Browsing the Web is fun. 
More importantly, browsing the Web is POSSIBLE, which was basically 
not the case 5+ years ago. I don't mean going from site-to-site - that's 
always been available, I mean going from links, to blogrolls, to webrings, 
to dense inner-world websites/services (:cough: Nightfall City :cough:), 
simplistic portfolios, a photo with a bio, a life journal rife with 
manifestos and meaning.

I just spent over an hour exploring blogrolls, and blogs, and sites, and 
/about pages, and /now pages, and /uses pages, and I can definitely say I 
am happy(er) now with the WWW than I was half a decade ago. Pre-COVID, when 
everything was the inescapable status quo, cynicism wasn't just in the air, 
but the lingo people spoke to have *any* exchange online. Many (I, so many 
I know) wanted to move on from that, I, and most others I know, certainly did.

If I could put symbolic flame to arrow to send to the sinking ship of social 
media accounts and un-used profiles on those services right now, I would. Yea,
still millions on there, let them be, for those going back to the ocean of the
web - to better shores and more promise, the small (just normal) web exists, 
and I love it.

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by: olearytm