The Web is <y>ours

Welcome!

The web artifact you are now exploring started as a webring^{[1]Webrings are a relic of the early web. When search engines weren't the big data collection we now deal with, people relied on direct link loops to connect their websites together. Usually, a webring appears as a button on one's website, inviting to navigate in the loop. Nowadays, webrings are being re-explored for their community and creative outcomes.} (spell ring^{[2]See .}) and evolved gracefully into what I call a webmaze^{[3]A webmaze is different from a webring for it is not looping, but branching. It offers various navigation paths that eventually connect to one another. Contrary to physical maze, this one does not rely on finding the 'right' way, but rather on finding your way.}.

It is based on J.R. Carpenter's text A Handmade Web; in which she covers why it is an important practice and her concerns regarding the evolution of the webspace.

I hereby present an extended, hexpanded^{[4]At first, this was a typo. Since I'm playing with magic, I found it had some kind of word-play relevance and kept it. See for more about magic.} version of A Handmade Web.

Borrowing to game mechanics such as 'choose your own adventure' or dungeon explorations, there is no 'right way' to experience it. I simply wish for you to visit it as you see fit, hoping you'll have fun along the way.
(Is everything clickable?!)

Whether it be by hyper-focusing and reaching the 100% completion of the visit, or by opening it, forgetting about it and diving back in again later – the Web is yours, you are its shaper.

Disclaimer

The space you are now about to visit is not a rewriting or a response to the original text. It is a compilation of annotations, reflections, images and links.

It is the result of my reading of the text and does not aim to rival with or discredit it. It is merely a way of sharing my attachment to the Handmade Web, hoping to enchant others along the way.

Additionally, it is hand-coded; meaning it might break, look slightly odd, and will definitely not fit the standard. It embraces the web in its primal meaning: an intrication of threads, connected to one another.

Apologies for its incompliance with the WCAG!