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author:
    email: mail@petermolnar.net
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    name: Peter Molnar
    url: https://petermolnar.net
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- http://web.archive.org/web/20140719185710/https://petermolnar.eu/blips/indie-web-principles/
lang: en
published: '2014-05-06T10:01:36+00:00'
tags:
- indieweb
- internet

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> Have fun. Remember that GeoCities page you built back in the mid-90s?
> The one with the Java applets, garish green background and seventeen
> animated GIFs? It may have been ugly, badly coded and sucky, but it
> was fun, damnit. Keep the web weird and interesting.

> Build for the long web[^1]. If human society is are able to preserve
> ancient papyrus, Victorian photographs and dinosaur bones, we should
> be able to build web technology that doesn't require us to destroy
> everything we've done every few years in the name of progress. - Indie
> Web Principles[^2]

[^1]: <http://adactio.com/articles/1522/>

[^2]: <http://indiewebcamp.com/>