95 REASONS FOR HAVING YOUR OWN WEBSITE
Bell Kiosk - https://bellkiosk.website/blog/reasons-to-website.html

1) to write for oneself
2) to post quietly (https://memory.elliott.computer/posting-quietly/)
3) to have a home on the open web
4) to keep a record of the days (https://everythingthathappened.today/)[1]
5) to learn how the web works
6) to make a friend (https://websitesite.xyz)[2] across the world
7) to have a place to keep memories (https://memory.elliott.computer/)[3]
8) to learn HTML
9) to write lists
10) to keep a daily writing practice
11) to lean into feeling naive (https://www.naiveweekly.com/)[4]
12) to understand more about your relationship to yourself, to others, or to the world
13) to write poetry
14) to use the web as a medium and material[5]
15) to ground oneself
16) to remember
17) to make a place for conviviality (https://extrapractice.space/)[6]
18) to create the community that you didn't have growing up
19) to make a photo album
20) as a place to rage
21) to recreate your old blogspot or tumblr
22) as a love letter
23) to keep <time>
24) to use social media (https://dandelioncoffee.co.uk)[7] a little less
25) to post for oneself
26) to be fragile
27) to ground (https://home.elliott.computer/)[8] yourself
28) to collect things and display them on a shelf together
29) to keep things unfinished and open ended
30) to contemplate your own mortality
31) as an activity to do with a friend, "lets make a website together"
32) out of boredom
33) to keep notes
34) as a medium to make a movie
35) an excuse to go to the park (https://oneminutepark.tv/)[9]
36) because vibe coding only gets you so far
37) for the love of the web
38) to pretend that it's 2010 again
39) to pretend that it's 2000 again
40) to become an island
41) to become an archipelago with your friends
42) as a form of prayer
43) to remember that a website is just files & folders
44) as a form of play
45) because you want to publish offline
46) to feel in control
47) to feel out of control
48) to stay unstructured
49) to think through a big life decision
50) to be your own localhost
51) to keep an index of colors
52) to go deep
53) to feel more alive when interacting with a computer
54) to publish without social pressure
55) to keep the like counter at 0
56) to troll yourself
57) to make infinite scrolling optional
58) to bring guest books back
59) to write for yourself
60) to show others what the web could be
61) to world the world
62) as a wish
63) to retain the aura (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_Mechanical_Reproduction)[10] of your work
64) to write your own wikipedia entry
65) to remove the cynicism (https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/)[11] from the reason
66) to stay grounded in the seasons (https://pentad.world/)[12]
67) to own what you publish
68) after reading an essay about what a website could be (https://thecreativeindependent.com/essays/laurel-schwulst-my-website-is-a-shifting-house-next-to-a-river-of-knowledge-what-could-yours-be/)[13]
69) so that the nerds don't have the only voice on the www
70) as a form of care (https://gijs.garden/)[14]
71) because it has very little to do with brutalism (https://brutalistwebsites.com/)[15]
72) because it feels good to be alive (https://www.naiveweekly.com/p/alive-internet-theory)[16]
73) as a way to find love
74) as a form of protest
75) as a radical statement
76) to have a clean room
77) to be in motion
78) to recharge
79) to draw
80) to try out POSSE (https://indieweb.org/POSSE)[17]
81) as a way to go forward by looking back (https://memory.elliott.computer/go-back-to-go-forward/)[18]
82) to bring web rings back
83) to create bridges to other activities (https://projecting.life/)[19]
84) to feel young and old at the same time
85) to archive everything (https://everything.elliott.computer/)[20] you've ever done
86) to own your own instagram grid (https://camera.elliott.computer/)[21]
87) to learn how to juggle (https://juggling4ever.mmm.page)[22]
88) because no other medium is a container for images, audio, video, text, time, hyperlinks
89) it's still a largely unexplored artistic medium
90) to make a soup (https://fittererr.com/)[23]
91) to create a scene report
92) to document a ufo sighting
93) to walk with
94) as a way to make a custom home screen (https://sites.elliott.computer/jitterbug.html) for your phone
95) to publish your music outside the confines of the platforms

... do we need a reason to website?

FOOTNOTES
[1] everythingthathappened.today (https://everythingthathappened.today/) by Anna Marl.
[2] websitesite.xyz (https://websitesite.xyz), by Jisu Lee.
[3] Memory site (https://memory.elliott.computer/) by Elliott Cost.
[4] Naive Weekly (https://www.naiveweekly.com/), a newsletter by Kristoffer Tjalve.
[5] The phrase "the web as a medium and material" is credited to Kristoffer Tjalve (https://www.naiveweekly.com/).
[6] Extra Practice (https://extrapractice.space/), a shared studio in Rotterdam.
[7] Dandelion Coffee (https://dandelioncoffee.co.uk), a coffee bar in Buxton, Derbyshire.
[8] home.elliott.computer (https://home.elliott.computer/), Elliott Cost's homepage.
[9] One Minute Park (https://oneminutepark.tv/) by Elliott Cost.
[10] Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_Mechanical_Reproduction) (1935).
[11] motherfuckingwebsite.com (https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/), a manifesto by Barry T. Smith.
[12] Seasons in Pentameter (https://pentad.world/) by Laurel Schwulst, Marie Otsuka, and Tiger Dingsun.
[13] Laurel Schwulst, "My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?" (https://thecreativeindependent.com/essays/laurel-schwulst-my-website-is-a-shifting-house-next-to-a-river-of-knowledge-what-could-yours-be/), The Creative Independent.
[14] A Garden of Care Tools (https://gijs.garden/) by Gijs de Boer.
[15] Brutalist Websites (https://brutalistwebsites.com/), curated by Pascal Deville.
[16] "Alive Internet Theory" (https://www.naiveweekly.com/p/alive-internet-theory), Naive Weekly by Kristoffer Tjalve.
[17] POSSE (https://indieweb.org/POSSE) (Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere), an IndieWeb model.
[18] "Go back to go forward" (https://memory.elliott.computer/go-back-to-go-forward/), by Elliott Cost.
[19] Projecting Life (https://projecting.life/) by Gijs de Boer and Elliott Cost.
[20] Everything site (https://everything.elliott.computer/) by Elliott Cost.
[21] Camera (https://camera.elliott.computer/) by Elliott Cost.
[22] juggling4ever (https://juggling4ever.mmm.page), a juggling how-to page.
[23] fittererr.com (https://fittererr.com/), Sarah Fitterer's website by Gijs de Boer.

~ Bell Kiosk, a web studio making websites that feel personal, practical, alive, and human.