Web revival is a decentralized movement about putting the internet back in the hands of individual people. I’ll explain this by painting you a picture with words, of what the internet could be.

Imagine a place filled with people each sculpting entire worlds of their own, in each their own ways. It’s amazing, it’s beautiful, each one is beautiful. You look closer at one, and see someone gushing about their passions, even embedding them into the very space. Another, and here’s a person playing with the very essences of ideas, twisting them about into feelings and understandings and turning them over and over until they are unwound. Another. And another. More and more and…

You pull back a bit. Just how many of these are there? You start to look around, and you see tens, hundreds, thousands? You start to notice something. Each of these worlds, they’re not just all isolated on their lonesome. Worlds are connected with strands to others, and there are these fantastic structures pulled together; clusters and rings and branches and splits. It’s a whole galaxy. Each tiny dot a world, a whole world, full of things dear to a person.

If you wanted to, you could easily spend your whole life exploring this expanse and not even cover a small region of it. And, it’s constantly ebbing and flowing and breathing and growing; you can see it.

Okay, so you’ve pictured all that, and it’s a damn shame it doesn’t exist, right? What was the point of me asking you to do that? Just to make you sad you’ll never get to have that? Well, guess what… that place actually exists!

There are 1.6 million personal websites and growing on Neocities, which is just one free web host (place to put your website up). If you haven’t already, when you’re done here, take a wander around some of the links on this site, and you’ll start to see what I was just talking about.

Web revival is a decentralized movement, which means it’s a bunch of different people and groups, and some of them may not even think of it with the term “web revival” at all. It’s about putting the internet back in our hands, because the internet –this internet– is beautiful, and it’s most certainly here. That’s really what this website is about, actually; sharing the things I love in the internet with you.

So… If you wanna see more of this galaxy, and the web revival breathing even more life into it, I’ve got a few places you can start ^^

Surf the web
To websurf, find a link on a website, click it, and repeat ^^ Have fun seeing where it takes you :) If you want a bit of a challenge, see if you can make a loop back to a website you've previously visited, or if you want a lot of a challenge, try this website scavenger hunt!

For some good chill places to start a websurf, I can suggest the wayward webring, smallweb, or hotcat, but there's a whole ton of different ways to surf, which I link and talk about much more extensively here ^^ There's also many of good places to start websurfing linked all throughout uwusearch too :)

Read some blog posts / diary entries / etc.

Videos, Games, Music, Writing (personal letters)
Blogs, Comics, ASMR, Vtubers
[improve your web browsing experience]

Make your own website
You can make and host a website for free, really easily if you want. If you have a google doc, you can turn it into a website with odie, in a matter of minutes. If you have some files in a folder, you can turn them into a website too with blot.im (though this costs 6$ a month, so really, there are better options). If you want a little more customization, there's strawpage, carrd and plenty of other static site builders. If you want ultimate control over your website though, neocities or nekoweb allow you to host static sites from HTML, CSS and javascript files for free

need to find that essay like where they're like "I believe everyone should have a website, and beggars can't be choosers"


why you should build your own html website
You don't have to be a “content creator” to have a website.
how to make your own website from scratch Rediscovering the Small Web Welcome to the small web comet Your Own Website How to make a website

I think you should have a website.
https://webmastering.neocities.org/ https://petrapixel.neocities.org/coding/layout-generator odie, strawpage, other hosts/sitebuilders (neocities, nekoweb)
Link like some essays and resources on websites and such
https://wwp.ungual.digital/
https://thoughts.melonking.net/guides/introduction-to-the-web-revival-1-what-is-the-web-revival
https://wiki.melonland.net/manifestos
Resources
https://pollcode.com/ (explanation on the embedding thing, and my hacky nekoweb iframe workaround too 😭) https://webneko.net/ RSS

Interact with people
Join some webrings / webcliques
Say hi to webneighbors :)
Say hi to people on their guestbooks
You can also go poke around the sites of the people on Guestbooks Galore and leave someone a little comment if you'd like; I'm sure they'd appreciate it :3

(talk abt like social norms regarding webrings and such, and actually just social norms regarding web revival in general as well, so that I can help ppl who might be socially anxious abt some of these things)
IRC (I personally don’t know much about IRC yet): https://koshka.love/irc/help.html

Say the piece abt like, change your local world, that’s much easier than the whole world (and it’s how the whole world gets changed too); get your friends and people you’re close to away from artificial incompetence, tell them about web revival and link them some web revival resources ^^ (it don’t gotta be uwusearch lol) set up webmentions webmentions
mention somewhere here probably the gemini protocol? or just put it in find websites (which will eventually be just like ‘search’ or smth) https://letsdecentralize.org/

A few additional things
talk about people being like 'what would I put on a website' (if I don't already get to it way before) talk about, if you think you're bad with technology, consider - maybe it's the technology that is bad, even [intentionally so]. of mechanical compliance
(actually maybe add this into the more reading bit, like in the previous section) If you don't think you have enough time for this internet, consider this: you use a search engine, don't you? Are you not saying with that then, "I have enough time to give to a massive corporation, to get their answers, but not enough time to give to getting answers and understanding from my fellow individual humans"? * "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." - The Lorax "It's lonely shouting into the void" one thing you can do is to make a website together with some friends - your website doesn't have to be a one person project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOcnj-0lzeA https://status.cafe/, imood https://iframe.chat/ https://lockheart.love/blog/2025~01~25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocjzagGjif0 https://projects.kwon.nyc/internet-is-fun/ https://joinpeertube.org/publish-videos ^ the thing about people who make videos on larger platforms crossposting, and how that's beneficial in multiple ways on an individual level and also decreases dependence slowly so that maybe eventually we don't have to all be so reliant on this system (bc of the feedback loop of, most ppl watch on youtube so most people put their videos on youtube and vice versa)