Hi folks, I’m so dang tired of the internet as it currently is. The idea of a small web, personal websites, returning to what the internet was intended to be sounds incredibly exciting to me and I’d like to invest in that… but I don’t really know where to start? So much of what I read seems to have a ton of coding jargon. I clicked on Small Web 101 and it was a masterlist of somewhat confusing links.
The most coding I’ve done was on Khan Academy as a teenager or setting up an automatic macro to run the coliseum for me in Flight Rising. I pirate basically everything I watch but I’ve only torrented one or two things and don’t really grasp how that works. I don’t really know anything about my laptop but I have a vague idea that I should switch to Linux and I replaced the screen once.
What’s step one for a wannabe Small Web enthusiast?
What do you want to try to do? And what sort of hardware do you have? There are endless possibilities! But that will help narrow down.
I guess my bigger question then is what are my options for things to try to do? C: I’d like to have a personal website, but otherwise I’m not quite sure how to engage
Well, one of the nice things about Linux is that it’s easy to run on older hardware. So I’d recommend first getting an old computer, if you don’t have laying around one already, to be your server.
I’d also recommend checking out Yunohost. It’s a specialized distro based on Debian that makes it very easy to launch and host your own web services. Its app catalog should give you a pretty good idea of the stuff you can do!