Tobias at DESK:
…our website was our home. An extension of ourselves. Every day we visited our page, tweaked it a bit here, adjusted something there, stood back and admired it. Our site was a little corner of the internet we could own.
Fast forward to now and a website almost feels old fashioned. Our social profiles are all-consuming. Curating our Instagram page is our second job. We almost feel an obligation to share our work there, in addition to our personal lives. Our little corner of the internet? It now collects cobwebs.
We control the layout of our website. We can create a page that reflects our taste, our personality, our style.
We control the narrative, too. It’s here we can finally show our work the way it’s intended to be shown. We get to tell the story exactly as we wrote it, with context the audience or user doesn’t typically have. It’s our chance to own our work and put it in its best light.
…When we create a personal website, we own it – at least to the extent that the internet, beautiful in its amorphous existence, can be owned.
A lengthy quotation from the source. I just want to put these words in my website.
Creating a website started just a hobby for me, curious about how I can make something in the internet with these lines of code. I tried different platforms over time, making many changes, adding different functions to make it look more modern. These processes had me hooked in designing and what to put for my website. Years passed and I finally had the chance of buying a domain which I can keep forever and started to build again a website from scratch. This time, I decided to go old-fashioned by only using a static html website. Today, I’m very proud on what I created.
Having this little space in the internet is what matters for myself. It reflects what my tastes, my hobbies, and my interests are. There’s no rules on what I can do, I am free. This is I think what those social media platforms taken away from people today, the freedom in the internet.