excerpt from 'end-to-end, p2p, my to me'

"The idea that you should invest time into building your corner of cyberspace was mercilessly suppressed by hosting and service providers & founders of the internet. There was no time in history when building your home was celebrated and acknowledged by opinion leaders.

Please acknowledge that people who built these homes, houses, cottages, places, realms, crypts, lairs, worlds, worlds, worlds, worlds and other dimensions were challenging the architechture and the protocols in a figurative if not practical meaning of this word. Users hijacked the first homepage of the browser and developed this concept into another direction. A user builiding, moving in, taking control over territory was never a plan. It was a subversive practice also in 1995.

I have a message for those who decided to make their webpages in 2020: What you make is a statement, is an act of emancipation. You make it to continue a 25 year old tradition of liberation. Don't see it as nostalgia."

Olia Lialina, [source]