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I was lucky enough to grow up during the 90s, when the world transitioned from offline to online. My first internet connection was dialup. Browsers were quite different.

🔗 Netscape Navigator

And the Web at the time really was an interconnected web of pages consisting mostly of text and blue inline links.

It was wonderful, it was exciting, it was somehow world-encompassing and deeply personal at the same time.

Then came big tech—they started small, of course—social media, and a continuous march of technological transformations, all turning the Web into something entirely other.

Today, I would say the Web is a wonderful technology. It’s a general-purpose platform for communication and entertainment, and is supremely successful and even ubiquitous as a result.


Creating a web page from scratch is now about choosing what not to do. There are no guardrails; you can build anything you like.

Where to even begin? One of the hardest challenges in designing anything is to stay minimal, to focus on what’s really important. The Web gives you so much to choose from that you’re almost guaranteed to do too much.

So, I did something that often works really well: I copied from something I know that works really well. It’s called Gemtext, and it’s worth its own page.

📄 Gemtext

Gemtext is part of the Gemini protocol—nothing at all to do with Google’s AI—which is also worth a look.

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📄 Morgan’s page
📄 Web
📄 Gemtext