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Why is this site like this?

The internet sucks. Everyone agrees that it sucks.

Almost everything on the internet is bullshit, almost all software is awful to use, almost all of it is spyware, almost all of it is broken and all of it is blowing carbon into the atmosphere at a frightening level.

This website is built on what is now known as digital despair. It's an extremely visually boring response to a world of flashy crap with zero substance.

If you want to think about how we've managed to do less with more admire this photo of Ernest Hemingway demonstrating how he wrote For Whom The Bell Tolls, which is certainly better than anything you've ever read online. Even if you don't like Hemingway.

I don't actually want to make something this recalcitrant, and I'm generally avant-garde and not traditionalist, but unfortunately the modern web's juice isn't worth the squeeze. Pointlessly scrolling through animations you don't care about, waiting for broken dynamic content to load, trying to find something using a search engine that tries to sell you keyword mismatches, clicking through cookie permission screens, trying to mute video that won't stop playing, being bugged to join the mailing list, it's like...

I had no simile to end that paragraph with because the internet really isn't like anything we've ever had before. It's worse in ways we could never have imagined in 1996 when the worst cultural disaster we could think up was television.

If only something as simple as television - one way, just ads every fifteen minutes, doesn't fit in your pocket - was our problem now.

So here I am, creating an atavistic website because the modern internet is an absolute disaster.