In my regular rabbit hole of looking up portfolio and website inspiration, I came across Megumi Tanaka’s website. I enjoyed the limited (brutalist?) look of it, but I think the thing that caught my eye was their digital garden, which, in order to explain what principles they built their garden on, linked to an essay on The Small Web. And then, things just clicked.
My internet was the small web. This is where home is, where my digital being was conceived — growing up in spaces like AsianAvenue, Geocities and AngelFire; spending my early teen years on AsianTown, MySpace; finding my college time on Tumblr. Now, in my mid-20s to 30, having spent my time in the big web, Web 2.0, on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.