Small Web, Indie Web and Gemini are terminally missing the point. The web in the 90s was an ecosystem that attracted people because of experimentation with the medium, diversity of content and certain free-spirited social defaults. It also attracted attention because it was a new, exciting and rapidly expanding phenomenon. To create something equivalent right now you would need to capture those properties, rather then try to revive old visual styles and technology.
For a while I hoped that VR will become the new World Wide Web, but it was successfully torpedoed by the Metaverse initiative.
For a while I hoped that VR will become the new World Wide Web, but it was successfully torpedoed by the Metaverse initiative.