The modern web has a lot of advantages over the web of the old days. It has never been easier to publish your thoughts using things like WordPress, communicate with your peers via sites like LinkedIn or even Facebook or have a vile argument with strangers thanks to microblogging services like Twitter. And don’t even get me started on the vast amount of high-quality content that exists on YouTube, ranging from entertainment to education. Back in the old days one would have to scour the web for days to even find a website containing the information presented in a single YouTube video.

But at the same time it feels like all of this comes at a cost. While it has become way easier to find information online, most of the time an answer to a question is just one google search away, it has also become harder to find that information again. It feels like, at least to me, that the web of the old days was better curated.

A lot of people stored a copy of information they found on their adventures on the web on their personal sites and thus creating little libraries tailored to their interests. When I was younger these little personal libraries were a very important resource for me. I learned programming with the collection of tutorials on a website called robsite.de. While nothing more than the website of a guy named Robert it was an extremely valuable collection of tutorials, links and book reviews related to coding and web design. All neatly ordered in tables which were filed by category for easy consumption. Mainly done by him for him.

In contrast his modern site is a microblog where he still posts about his interests, mainly coding and math, but it’s more akin to Twitter. There’s no neat archive, no order. The content lives in the moment and gets lost in entropy once it’s pushed from the frontpage.

And this is my goal with this website. To bring some order into the modern web, where everything is lost to entropy a mere day after its publication.