Monday Memes #6
On a real note, webrings can definitely be challenging to keep up with maintaining.
Happy Monday! 
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https://smallweb.thecozy.cat/blog/%e2%9d%a4%ef%b8%8f-monday-memes-6-%e2%9d%a4%ef%b8%8f/
Self Promo Sunday #6
It's Self Promo Sunday, Y'all! 
Share your Small Web site in the comments and/or let us know what you've been working on lately!
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https://smallweb.thecozy.cat/blog/%f0%9f%92%97-self-promo-sunday-6-%f0%9f%92%97/
Happy Easter - Show me your Easter eggs :)
I have a 15-year-old homepage with a hidden chat from an old game 
https://yuna.berlin
Guess the game?
Easter: a seasonal reminder that most companies have the imagination of a beige wall.
Let’s talk software Easter eggs – tiny sparks of joy buried under layers of Jira tickets.
If your product has none?
Congratulations. Your engineers are either chained in the feature factory…
or your company is too visionless to let them play.
Examples of fun companies:
Snake while YouTube buffers
GitHub mobile mini-game
Blame-someone error pages
Your product?
No dark mode No gamification No clever errors No i18n No responsive design No joy
But hey, Time to Market, right?
You’re not innovating. You’re duct-taping compliance machines.
No Easter eggs = No creative freedom
No themed UI = No empathy
No jokes = No soul
No dev input = No ownership
You’re not building software.
You’re crafting digital despair.
Fix it. Or at least add a theme toggle.
Happy Easter.
Go find your soul.
List of Google Easter eggs: https://elgoog.im/
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Hashtags:
#EasterEggs #SoftwareHumor #UXDesign #DevLife #HappyEaster #TechCulture #DarkModeOrDie #EngineerJoy #FeatureFactory #ProductDesign #DeveloperExperience #FunInSoftware #i18n #ResponsiveDesign #Gamification #ErrorPageHumor #OldWeb #RetroGames #DigitalSoul #CreativityInTech #coding #programming
Thread Thursday #6
What's the most fun or weirdest page you've ever added to your site? What inspired you to create that page? Let us know! 
https://smallweb.thecozy.cat/blog/%f0%9f%92%9a-thread-thursday-6-%f0%9f%92%9a/
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Webring Wednesday #4: Pixel Cuties Webring
Pixel Cuties Webring is a throwback dream for lovers and makers of pixel dollz—the avatars that once ruled the early 2000s internet.
Read the full post: https://smallweb.thecozy.cat/blog/%f0%9f%92%9b-webring-wednesday-4-pixel-cuties-webring-%f0%9f%92%9b/
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Monday Memes #5
A tribute to all the abandoned under construction pages that never got finished. 
Happy Monday!
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https://smallweb.thecozy.cat/blog/%e2%9d%a4%ef%b8%8f-monday-memes-5-%e2%9d%a4%ef%b8%8f/
I love the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day website. It's OG 90s, complete with HMTL tables. It's probably an accessibility nightmare. But it is web history completely alive and well.
Their RSS feed linked at the bottom of their main page (the one with today's picture) however is not a valid one and does not work. But there's another one listed on the About page: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod.rss This one works.
They have an official bot here in the fedi: @apod@reentry.codl.fr
#NASA #APOD #oldWeb
Flashback Friday #5 – Youtube
Before YouTube became a corporate machine full of sponsorships, algorithms, and influencer culture, it was chaotic, weird, and deeply personal.
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https://smallweb.thecozy.cat/blog/%f0%9f%92%99-flashback-friday-5-%f0%9f%92%99-youtube/
Thread Thursday #5
Do you prefer hand-coding your site or using a web builder? Why? What are the biggest pros and cons you’ve experienced with your preferred method? Let us know!
https://smallweb.thecozy.cat/blog/%f0%9f%92%9a-thread-thursday-5-%f0%9f%92%9a/
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"It’s strange to think that streaming a song in stereo was so revolutionary back then, but that was the state of the art in online media circa 1996."
Monday Memes #4
If you’re not handcrafting your own site in 2025, are you even online? The small web is poppin’—where you at?
Happy Monday!
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https://smallweb.thecozy.cat/blog/%e2%9d%a4%ef%b8%8f-monday-memes-4-%e2%9d%a4%ef%b8%8f/
Self Promo Sunday #4
It's Self Promo Sunday, Y'all! Share your Small Web site in the comments and/or let us know what you've been working on lately!
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https://smallweb.thecozy.cat/blog/%f0%9f%92%97-self-promo-sunday-4-%f0%9f%92%97/
Thread Thursday #4
What's something you wish you had known before making your first website? What advice would you give to someone who's about to create their first website now that you have this knowledge? Let us know!
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https://smallweb.thecozy.cat/blog/%f0%9f%92%9a-thread-thursday-4-%f0%9f%92%9a/
Mastodon has the character of the "old" web, where you click on a link and you're down a rabbit hole of (new) information. There's always one tab on Mastodon open, very risky, for during breaks when painting. Sometimes it leads to nothing new and I get back to the easel, other times it becomes dark outside and my brushes turn crispy.
Flashback Friday #3 – Geocities & Angelfire
Before social media took over, Geocities and Angelfire were where the internet’s real creativity happened. These free web hosting platforms let people build anything they wanted—from personal diaries to deep-dive fan shrines to completely bizarre conspiracy hubs.
Read the full article: https://smallweb.thecozy.cat/blog/%f0%9f%92%99-flashback-friday-3-%f0%9f%92%99-geocities-angelfire/
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Tuesday Tips #1
POV: You just made your first personal website and have absolutely no idea what to put on it!
Here’s a list of 54 page ideas to spark some inspiration.
https://smallweb.thecozy.cat/blog/tuesday-tips-1/
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I discovered a super cool #service a while back:
Street Pass! It's a #browser #addon that notices you about #Fediverse accounts of the sites you visit (if they've enabled it on their website). Check it out, it's so good:
Classic Games Emulation Site (1999) at the Chaotic n-space Network
It's another ancient gaming site that, despite domain names and hosting being persistent charges that must be paid month after month until the site goes down, and not even being updated since the turn of the century, is somehow still on-li
https://setsideb.com/classic-games-emulation-at-the-chaotic-n-space-network/
#oldweb #retro #BenMartin #CaliforniaGames #ChaoticNSpace #emulation #epyx #ImpossibleMission #oldweb #retro
