https://stackingthebricks.com/how-blogs-broke-the-web/ --How the Blog Broke the Web

this was a very fun article to read through. it's a personal one, and i find these types of articles becoming less and less common as the internet evolves. it details their own experience with the early web, in 1993, and how it changed. i loved being swept away by this, it has a way of taking you in. i felt like i was living through it.

https://murid.neocities.org/ --murid (occasionally, content)

i picked at this website for hours. i truly love it, and how they spent years of their life adding and crafting it into what it is now. i spent a while reading their thought stream page entries and i found them so compelling to me. from thoughts on the human condition to snacks they tried, i loved taking a look into their mind. it's one of my favorite things to browse sites that have things along the lines of journal entries or creative writing. it is so interesting to me, being able to eat up a slice of their life with nothing but storytelling. i liked this quote in particular from "shitwriting, 26 apr 2021": "Good writing is a delight to read. But honest writing is refreshing in its own way."