📋 A guide to the guides 💯
We have put together a guide to the guides below after relying on these resources to build this project. Within these guides you will both practical information and inspiration. If you run into terms you are not familiar with, check our slow glossary!
👁️ why slow internet? why make your own server?
👁️ why make a solar powered web server? why make a simple website?
👁️ what could you put on your own server? ways to think about websites
📋 why slow internet? why make your own server?
Feminist Server Manifesto
...on relationality, dependency and what that would mean for an (imaginary) Feminist Server...
Homebrewserverclub
Principles, practices, and helpful definitions when setting up your own server in the Homebrewserverclub Manifesto
Getting Into Fights With The Data Centers
How to find a data center, climate politics of ICT, and why create your own server
📋 why make a solar powered web server? why make a simple website?
Why a Low-Tech Website?
"We were told that the Internet would “dematerialise” society and decrease energy use. Contrary to this projection, it has become a large and rapidly growing consumer of energy itself."
Towards a Natural Intelligence
"The Solar Protocol network reconfigures internet protocols using a kind of natural rather than artificial intelligence."
Solar Powered Media
"Without guaranteed 24/7 electricity from fossil fuels, solar invites questions of intermittency, thrift, and compression." by Anne Pasek & Benedetta Piantella
📋 what could you put on your own server? ways to think about websites
Run Your Own Social
Why create and run your own social media network
A Website Is a Room
UCLA Thesis project by Nancy Wu: "certain websites give me a sense of shelter and rest more than others."
My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?
Essay by Laurel Shwulst: "My favorite aspect of websites is their duality: they're both subject and object at once."
Web Design as Architecture
"1. Websites are places. They provide services and social environments...." a list by Designer and Programmer Malte Müller
📋 what could you put on your own server? ways to think about websites
Start with this one, read it all:
Then read this one:
Then use this parts list:
Once you have the parts, then arrange them in this diagram:
Follow these instructions:
If you're new to all of this, here are our suggestions:
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