Slashpages

Slashpages are an indie / small web convention established around top-level URLs on a small site like this one. The idea comes from the original, organic standardisation of the about page, which appears on thousands of websites and almost always uses the same slug: /about.

Robb Knight's Slashpages project expands on this by documenting other single-word URLs in use around the indie web, thereby helping to standardise them.

This site has a handful of them. Not all of these are recognised by the slashpages list.

• About
• Colophon
• Human
• Now
• Uses
• Zibaldone

Human is my own idea and is a counterpoint to the AI slashpage, which is defined as 'a page that describes how you do, or don't, use AI'. Unfortunately it seems to be implemented almost exclusively by people who do use AI. I find I assume the worst automatically when I see it in a site's navigation, so human is my effort to telegraph the opposite message.

'Zibaldone' is an idea I first saw on the author China Miéville's website. The zibaldone was a cultural phenomenon in thirteenth and fourteenth century Italy, a notebook carried by the individual to record snippets and miscellany from literature, prayer and other simple observations. It's less a record or journal than a scrapbook of interesting cultural media the author wanted to recall or share later. Atlas Obscura rightly alludes to this as a sort-of Renaissance Tumblr.