What is "pure internet"?
It’s a tongue-in-cheek joke. Pure internet is anything you can access through your browser served over ... the internet.
I'm a 90s kid. My first website was created in the school Computer Lab and stored on a Zip Drive. The disk is lost, but I remember my monotyped Notepad creation in all its asteroid GIF glory, perfect for Geocities.
I think the internet has grown too complex. The battle to publish content online has led to entire industries developing around blogging as a service. It shouldn't be so difficult to share hypertext independently.
That’s what’s unfolding with recent projects. How can I simplify it? How can I abstract it? How can I view my relationship with HTML and CSS differently?
NFC: https://iammatthias.com/posts/1731984900000-pure-internet-nfc The idea was to store data URLs on an NFC tag. This fell apart because data URLs are not supported for top-level navigation. The solution was to host minimal HTML on IPFS and use JS to bootstrap a data URL from a URL param into an iframe. nfc.pure---internet.com
Bluesky: https://iammatthias.com/posts/1732585567703-pure-internet-bluesky This was a fun experiment inspired by Daniel Mangum's prior work. It leverages Bluesky's underlying AtProtocol, namely the Personal Data Server (PDS) and content addressable blob storage. bluesky.pure---internet.com
Feral-Pi: https://iammatthias.com/posts/1733357455673-pure-internet-feral A solar-powered Raspberry Pi running a small Hono app, exposed through a Cloudflare tunnel. feral.pure---internet.com