A Handmade Web — J.R. Carpenter

• the result of handmaking may be homely or exquisite


• "webpages which challenge conventions of reading, writing, design, ownership, privacy, security, or identity"


• the web allows for circling in a way that books don't → "...but when people get to the end they stopped reading because thats the way books work. In the web version, the last page linked to the first; the story circled round and round"


• "wherea archives held in museums/libraries generally contain artifacts created elsewhere ...the handmade web pages contained in the online archive (trAce) continue to exist in the medium within which they were created" — the frames through which we view them continue to change


• "layer upon layer of dated web-design aesthetics overlap and peel like wallpaper, revealing earlier versions beneath"


• The One Mile Scroll → "through the labour of the body, the virtual space of the browser window is transformed into an actual, physical distance"