Pure Internet
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"Pure Internet" is a tongue-in-cheek name for anything you can reach through a browser, served over the internet. The joke is mostly about how many layers we have managed to put between those two things.
I'm a 90s kid. My first website was made in a school computer lab and stored on a Zip Drive. The disk is lost, but I remember the monotype Notepad masterpiece in all its asteroid-GIF glory, perfectly Geocities.
Publishing now supports an entire industry of services, frameworks, and dashboards. Sharing hypertext should still be easier than that.
That's the thread running through these projects. Simplify, abstract, look at HTML and CSS sideways.
nfc: data URLs on an NFC tag. Top-level navigation rejects data URLs, so the workaround is minimal HTML hosted on IPFS, with JS bootstrapping a data URL from a query param into an iframe. nfc.pure---internet.com
bluesky: an experiment inspired by Daniel Mangum's prior work. Hosted on Bluesky's AT Protocol, using the Personal Data Server (PDS) and content-addressed blob storage. bluesky.pure---internet.com
feral---pi: a solar-powered Raspberry Pi running a small Hono app, exposed through a Cloudflare tunnel. feral.pure---internet.com
office---space: a Raspberry Pi with environmental sensors tracking the conditions of my office. office.pure---internet.com
no-html: a website with no HTML. no-html.pure---internet.com