Yesterweb
イエスタウェブ / 2021–2023 / Aesthetic / Digital Retro
The look of a movement that began in February 2021 as a Discord room and grew into a webring and a zine. It calls for leaving what it names the core web, the platforms run for profit, in favor of a peripheral web of hand written personal sites, and it dresses its pages in 88 by 31 buttons and stamps arguing that frames are still a good tool.
Rows of 88 by 31 pixel buttons, put there to be copied by hand onto somebody else's page / A tiled background image that stays fixed while the page scrolls past it / Text heavy GIF stamps carrying the argument itself, such as frames are fine and you should make your own website / Previous, next, and random webring buttons closing out the foot of the page
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Linking your own hand written pages directly to other people's pages instead of publishing through a platform · Setting up your own machinery for binding a scene of personal sites together, a ring or a button exchange
- Type
- A quirky display face for headings and a plain sans for body text; the manifesto stays as text no matter how long, never as an image.
- Composition
- Stack the content in window like boxes down the page with a vertical band running along one edge, and close the foot with a link list and the ring buttons.
- Material
- Purple and pink laid over black, a tiled image fixed behind everything, and buttons and stamps pasted in as raw GIFs with no compression pass and no shared dimensions.
- Caution
- Collect the nineties signifiers but drop the argument and the reason for leaving the corporate web goes with it, leaving the nostalgic wallpaper the movement's own summary names as the trap.
- Further study
- Yesterwebのマニフェスト本文と、The Role of Nostalgiaの節（懐古が運動を止めたという自己批判） / 中心のウェブと周縁のウェブという二分の定義 / 88×31バナーとリングのウィジェットが、実際にどう手作業で貼り回されたか実例を辿る
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