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 ====== The Web Revival ======
-Directory of Community Web Revival [[manifestos|Manifestos]]
 The Web Revival is one name for a wider internet-based movement! The name itself is derived from the Folk Revival of the mid-20th century. The Folk Revival promoted a feeling of humanity, creativity and equality at a time of rapid mechanisation; whereas the Web Revival promotes these values in the face of the rapid digitisation that surrounds us today.
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   * See [[Manifestos|Manifestos]] of the Web Revival - A list of personal essays by Web Revivalists!
+===== Is it Web Revival? =====
+This is a quiz and manifesto to help you tell if a website is a web revival site! Each question has a score at the end, add up your score and see how it works out!
+==== Discover new things ====
+  * Could this page have existed 15 years ago? **(No +1)**
+  * Was there at least one idea on this page you've never seen on another site? **(Yes +1)**
+The web revival is about reviving a spirit of exploration and discovery, that means trying ideas and creating things that are unlike anything that existed in the past.
+==== Deconstruct old things ====
+  * Does this page look weird, playful or unusual? **(Yes +1)**
+  * Are there assets or features related to something from before 2010? **(Yes +1)**
+The web revival is about twisting history, and finding the ideas and materials the web abandoned, then remixing them into the modern age. History is a tool, not a destination.
+==== Create things that follow your skills ====
+  * Is there something broken on this page? **(Yes +1)**
+  * Is this site clunky or lacking polish? **(Yes +1)**
+Everyone has limited knowledge, how you use that knowledge is what makes a site unique. Its good for things to be broken, that's an opportunity to learn. There is no end or finished project; and if you finish your site, you may have missed the point.
+==== Share stuff ====
+  * Is there a resource of things you can download for your own site? **(Yes +1)**
+  * Are there links to guides, or tips, on how to host your own site?  **(Yes +1)**
+The web revival is depends on generosity, it's a web without walled gardens or unnecessary restrictions. Go out of your way to share knowledge and materials, and support archives and community efforts to share knowledge.
+==== Respect your media ====
+  * Does this page have credits or links to media it uses? **(Yes +1)**
+  * Is this page bloated, slow, or trying too hard to be a novelty interface? **(No +1)**
+The web has a history, an aesthetic, and technical boundaries. Always respect the materials you use, the people who created them, and the context they came from. There is a difference between bending media into a new form, and forcing it to be something its not.
+==== Make things that inspire first ====
+  * Is this page trying to sell me something? **(No +1)**
+  * Do I feel refreshed after browsing this page? **(Yes +1)**
+The goal of any new media should be to inspire and delight people. Money or usefulness are fine outcomes for a project, but they must be secondary to the goal of inspiring.
+==== Be genuine ====
+  * Do I feel like I got to know the person who made this page? **(Yes +1)**
+  * Did I learn something about the world I never knew before? **(Yes +1)**
+We all build personas for the world to see, but the web revival is about cutting those personas down to size, and creating web spaces that are honest and genuine to who you are. That does not mean sharing your real identity, but it does mean that the identity you do share should feel like its made for you, rather than fitting into someone eles's mold.
+==== Treat links as loved ones ====
+  * Does this page have links to other web revival sites? **(Yes +1)**
+  * Can you find this page via a link on a web revival site? **(Yes +1)**
+Link to others, and ensure links to you don't die. Links are the lifeblood of the web, they are the web's most authentic feature. Its an honor to be linked to, and its an honor to link.
+==== Work with others ====
+  * Does this page link to any external forums or communities? **(Yes +1)**
+  * Is this page hosting a webring or any other community project? **(Yes +1)**
+The web revival is about collaboration. Ask questions and answer them too. Help build other peoples projects, not just your own, and when you do create projects, build them to last so that people can depend them.
+==== Remember its not forever ====
+  * Does this page block me from accessing content or making archives? **(No +1)**
+  * Does this page offer archives of its own past media? **(Yes +1)**
+The web revival is about remixing the ruins of older eras of the web. Everything you create will one day be a ruin too, and it will be remixed again. Design your site to be a graceful archive, don't delete it, don't break links; and let people know when you have moved on. Your site is a resource for the future, so make sure the future can reach it.
+==== Be the good kind of evil ====
+  * Did this page require me to work in order to explore it? **(Yes +1)**
+  * Am I unsure if this page is safe? **(Yes +1)**
+Mess with people, push them, force people to look at things differently, but do it with their best interests at heart. People deserve a web that's more than a polite novelty. People deserve a web that speaks to their chaos and shouts back, but does not bully them, put them at risk, bore them, steal from them, or treat them as metrics.
+==== Results! ====
+The total possible score is **22**!
+  * If you got a score of **17 or more**, then it's a web revival site!
+  * If you got a score of **12-16**, then it's prob an IndieWeb site!
+  * If you got a score of **6-11**, then it's a normie site!
+  * If you got a score **under 6**, run away!
+===== History and Terms =====
+The phrase "web revival" has evolved over many years. A variant of the term appears in Gizmodo's 2014 article about [[neocities|Neocities]] "The Great Web 1.0 Revival". However, the modern meaning described here evolved as part of a group discussion that took place on the [[yesterweb|Yesterweb]] Discord server in 2021.
+Prior to that terms such as "Bespoke Web", "Indie Web" and simply "Neocities" were often used.
+In 2021 due to the popularity of the Discord group, the term "Yesterweb" was frequently used to describe the wider web crafting community, however, some felt that it was inappropriate to overuse the Discord server name, particularly when talking about sites made by people who were not part of the discord server.
+Web Revival was one suggestion that came about during that discussion; it was initially a play on the "Folk Revival" as described above, and it also included the suggestion that webmasters could be referred to as "Codeniks" after the 1960s "Beatnik" culture.
+Initially, it was not a widely popular term; however, it was fully adopted by MelonLand in late 2021 and was further promoted in articles such as "What Is The Web Revival" in 2022. The Codeniks phrase was never adopted, but the Web Revival phrase eventually gained widespread use and has largely been the primary phrase as of 2023.
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   * Melon's [[https://thoughts.melonking.net/guides/introduction-to-the-web-revival-1-what-is-the-web-revival|What is the Web Revival]]
+  * Is it Web Revival [[https://thoughts.melonking.net/thoughts/is-it-web-revival]]
   * Maggie Appleton's [[https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history|A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden]]
   * Mike Caulfield's [[https://hapgood.us/2015/10/17/the-garden-and-the-stream-a-technopastoral/|The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral]]
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   * [[https://interfacecritique.net/book/olia-lialina-from-my-to-me/|From My to Me]] essay by Olia Lialina
   * [[https://www.softwaresessions.com/episodes/bringing-geocities-back-with-kyle-drake/|Bringing GeoCities Back with Kyle Drake]] (Podcast about Neocities)
+  *[[https://web.archive.org/web/20230921061816/https://gizmodo.com/the-great-web-1-0-revival-1651487835|Gizmodo's The Great Web 1.0 Revival]]
   * [[https://vimeo.com/719578661|The Web Revival and the Folk Life of Virtual Worlds]] - talk by Daniel Murray