# Making space for a handmade web

DevFeed: [Making space for a handmade web](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/making-space-for-a-handmade-web-9957.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.figma.com/blog/making-space-for-a-handmade-web/>)

Author: Chia Amisola

Published: 2025-01-09T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Figma Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/figma-blog.md>)

Topics: [Web](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web.md>), [Internet](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/internet.md>), [hosting](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hosting.md>)

Tags: [free](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/free.md>), [hosting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hosting.md>), [internet](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/internet.md>), [personal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/personal.md>), [social-media](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/social-media.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that small, handcrafted websites can restore a more personal, poetic, and expressive character to the internet. It contrasts today's efficiency-driven web and dominant social media platforms with earlier amateur sites such as GeoCities, and highlights Neocities, internet-art institutions, and decentralized-web efforts as evidence that this kind of internet still exists.

## Source excerpt

There's a resurgence of small, handcrafted sites challenging the current trajectory of the internet. Joining the movement is as simple as making your own.