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A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Small Web
"In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy,
the Hitchhiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica
as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom."
This page is a tribute to Douglas Adams on Towel Day (May 25). It's also a reminder that the spirit of the Hitchhiker's Guide—irreverent, curious, finding joy in the absurd—lives on in the small web.
Like the Guide itself, this page doesn't take itself too seriously. It's a celebration of a writer who made us laugh while making us think.
Douglas Adams would have loved the indie web. He was an early technology adopter who saw the internet's potential for connection and creativity. He wrote about hypertext and interconnected information before the web existed.
The small web—with its personal sites, creative experiments, and rejection of corporate platforms—embodies the same spirit as the Guide: an alternative to the Encyclopedia Galactica (read: Wikipedia/Google), cheaper, more fun, and with better jokes.
The entries in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Small Web" section are written in the style of the Guide—affectionately satirical, gently mocking, and mostly harmless.
They celebrate the indie web community while channeling Adams' voice: that particular mix of absurdism, warmth, and cutting insight.