Vernacular Web: Indigenous and Barbarians
4 points by veqq
4 points by veqq
N.b. click the вперед buttons on the bottom right to get to the next section; the article is multiple pages together.
The author has a cool blog which continues it with: Vernacular Web 2 and Vernacular Web 3.
Edit: Also this blog
What a throwback. I remember making little pages that looked like the site samples in HTML in high school, but web pages had already come a long way, so I never really felt like there was a point without having to learn a lot more.
This is amazing! I really liked learning about Russian encoding buttons. It’s a shame the tilde movement didn’t seem to go anywhere.