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title: entry 2026-05-19
created: 2026-05-19
modified: 2026-05-19
tags: journal
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## The Small Web

I've been thinking a lot about the early 2000s, when the web was still small, and not overwhelmingly owned by 3 companies in a trench coat. When self-hosting was the way you got your words out, and web rings were the name of the game.

I came across [marginalia search](https://marginalia-search.com/explore) earlier today and it's fantastic. A small search engine for the small web, complete with an exploration feature reminiscient of old `stumbleupon`.

I'm writing this in hopes of indexing my site on there. Let's go see how it works together!

Edit: it's [queued to index](https://marginalia-search.com/site/10ktimes.gitlab.io)