95 reasons for having your own website

Summary

Bell Kiosk 95 reasons for having your own website random to write for oneself to post quietly to have a home on the open web to keep a record of the days1 to learn how the web works to make a friend2 across the world to have a place to keep memories3 to learn HTML to write lists to keep a daily writing practice to lean into feeling naive4 to understand more about your relationship to yourself, to others, or to the world to write poetry to use the web as a medium and material5 to ground oneself to remember to make a place for conviviality6 to create the community that you didn't have growing up to make a photo album as a place to rage to recreate your old blogspot or tumblr as a love letter to keep <time> to use social media7 a little less to post for oneself to be fragile to ground8 yourself to collect things and display them on a shelf together to keep things unfinished and open ended to contemplate your own mortality as an activity to do with a friend, "lets make a website together" out of boredom to keep notes as a medium to make a movie an excuse to go to the park9 because vibe coding only gets you so far for the love of the web to pretend that it's 2010 again to pretend that it's 2000 again to become an island to become an archipelago with your friends as a form of prayer to remember that a website is just files & folders as a form of play because you want to publish offline to feel in control to feel out of control to stay unstructured to think through a big life decision to be your own localhost to keep an index of colors to go deep to feel more alive when interacting with a computer to publish without social pressure to keep the like counter at 0 to troll yourself to make infinite scrolling optional to bring guest books back to write for yourself to show others what the web could be to world the world as a wish to retain the aura10 of your work to write your own wikipedia entry to remove the cynicism11 from the reason to stay grounded in the seasons12 to own...