Public Website

I will use Speed Bot to chart walks through pages forked from various points in the viki.wiki ecosystem. Then I will use a QR code generator built on Page App to peg a QR code to each point in the system. These QR codes will be plugged into Page App and organized across an axis using wiki.

https://uvp.viki.wiki/assets/page/art-system-kunstsystem.png

Screen recording of Public Website created on and hosted from Urbit's encrypted web3 experience, Landscape

Urbit's Page app is an html editor for splash pages hosted on ships. But what's a DOM on the decentralized web? Page app seems to be motivated by what and how to design from the standpoint of the private browsing experience (otherwise known as "web3") when the practical, personal and, now, professional, necessity of the clearweb was never properly arrived at.

It's not here, either. As simple as the HTML editor that lets you "make a new public website" and host it from your urbit ship makes it seem, Page app is a web 1 emulator. The fact that it's almost as slow and incompatible as web1 does not make it a simulator.

Tirrel Studio's inaugural release of Studio app, by contrast, breaks down at version hell: with the new Groups app, the personal notebooks Studio app draws from in order to render into the web2 blog with editorialized gutter rails, and also a web1 skin option, get taken off the interface. You have to go back to version one of groups, which I thought looked a lot better than discord, to be able to edit content.

> It is difficult to estimate how many web pages created in 1993-1994 made it into the new millenium in their premordial way. If you manage to find something that was put online that time, it would in the best case display a 1995-1996 skin.

I decided to try and use both. According to the artist and programmer Laurel Schwulst, Dr. Prof style is trending. She'd made note of this a while ago, probably around 2017, so when I went to find her website, I wasn't surprised that she'd opted for a familiar syntax:

https://www.laurel.world/ HEIGHT 500 Laurel Schwulst's homepage looks like fed wiki, but behaves like a podcast index. Her directory is also maintained as a living document.

Laurel's site is a good cross section of how

A markup language consists of a set of symbols inserted in a text document to control its structure, formatting, or the relationship between its parts.

So that's the medium: how we define a document.

References

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I look through my old photos for something that might make an interesting page. See About Image Plugin

Plumbin' is a self contained Smalltalk application written to be used in the hands-on lab section of an advanced Smalltalk class. Students were asked to read the program and then extend it. Plumbin' is designed to be small enough to read in one sitting while still offering interesting capability.