Pure Internet
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"Pure internet" is a playful joke about browser-served content, inspired by 90s simplicity and a desire to make web publishing less complex.
What is "pure internet"?
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 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.
The web has grown too complex. Publishing has spawned an entire industry of blogging-as-a-service. Sharing hypertext should 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 AtProtocol, 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