http://wiki.folk.zone/ 2026-06-21T12:07:50+00:00 http://wiki.folk.zone/ http://wiki.folk.zone/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2026-06-20T05:25:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.folk.zone/doku.php?id=protocols:smallweb:browser_monoculture&rev=1781933111&do=diff Browser Monoculture The Problem Chrome controls ~73% of global desktop browser market share. Add Chromium-based browsers (Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi) and the figure exceeds 80%. Mozilla's Gecko (Firefox) is the only viable independent rendering engine. text/html 2026-06-20T05:25:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.folk.zone/doku.php?id=protocols:smallweb:clients&rev=1781933111&do=diff Small Web Clients Browsers and tools for accessing Finger, Gopher, and Gemini. Terminal Clients Bombadillo A versatile terminal browser handling Gopher, Gemini, and Finger in a single interface. Vim-style keybindings. A few megabytes total — runs on hardware from 2005. Offpunk text/html 2026-06-20T05:25:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.folk.zone/doku.php?id=protocols:smallweb:old_hardware&rev=1781933111&do=diff Low Hardware Requirements of the Small Web The Contrast Loading a modern React web app requires downloading a JavaScript bundle, parsing and executing it, rendering a virtual DOM, reconciling it with the real DOM, and repeating on every state change. A modern Chromium browser uses ~2 text/html 2026-06-20T05:25:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.folk.zone/doku.php?id=protocols:smallweb:solarpunk&rev=1781933111&do=diff Solarpunk and the Small Web What Is Solarpunk? A speculative fiction genre and real-world political/aesthetic movement. Where cyberpunk imagines corporate dystopia and steampunk romanticizes industrialism, solarpunk imagines forward: decentralized communities, renewable energy, mutual aid, technology that serves life rather than exploiting it. text/html 2026-06-20T05:27:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.folk.zone/doku.php?id=protocols:smallweb:start&rev=1781933249&do=diff Small Web The small web refers to protocols, services, and communities that prioritize simplicity, minimalism, and user control over the modern commercial web's complexity and surveillance. Philosophy The small web rejects: * JavaScript bloat and tracking text/html 2026-06-20T05:25:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.folk.zone/doku.php?id=protocols:smallweb:twtxt&rev=1781933111&do=diff twtxt Created by: buckket Format: plain text, tab-separated, publicly hosted GitHub: github.com/buckket/twtxt What It Is A decentralised, minimalist microblogging format for self-hosted flat files. Instead of signing up at a closed microblogging platform, you put status updates in a publicly accessible text file. The text/html 2026-06-20T05:25:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.folk.zone/doku.php?id=protocols:smallweb:uri_schemes&rev=1781933111&do=diff URI Schemes Beyond HTTPS A URI scheme is the protocol prefix before :. https: is not the only one. Common Non-Web Schemes Scheme Protocol Notes ftp: | File Transfer Protocol | File transfers | | mailto: | Email composition | Handed off to mail client | |