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 Small Internet Manifesto
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We are the mice living in the foundations of the Internet.

If it needs doing, we do it ourselves.

We voluntarily restrict our use of CPU, memory, disk space, and
bandwidth.

We prefer simple protocols like Gopher.

We prefer simple formats like plain text.

We prefer small, cohesive tools in the classic Unix style.

We prefer small, cohesive groups of people.

We agree with Dennis Ritchie:  "What we wanted to preserve was not
just a good environment in which to do programming, but a system
around which a fellowship could form.  We knew from experience that
the essence of communal computing, as supplied by remote-access,
time-shared machines, is not just to type programs into a terminal
instead of a keypunch, but to encourage close communication."