I hope this place won’t hug it too hard, it’s on 61% battery as of writing. Has translations in fr, de, nl, es, it, pt
The average page size of this website is below 0.5 MB – roughly a sixth of the average page size of the original website
SERVER: This website runs on an Olimex A20 computer. It has 2 Ghz of processing power, 1 GB of RAM, and 16 GB of storage. The server draws 1 - 2.5 watts of power.
SERVER SOFTWARE: The webserver runs Armbian Stretch, a Debian based operating system built around the SUNXI kernel. We wrote technical documentation for configuring the webserver. [comfy’s note: worth checking out]
DESIGN SOFTWARE: The website is built with Pelican, a static site generator.
I also like the dithering aesthetic with the site images, both practical and stylistic.
A second reason for growing Internet energy consumption is that we spend more and more time on-line. Before the arrival of portable computing devices and wireless network access, we were only connected to the network when we had access to a desktop computer in the office, at home, or in the library. We now live in a world in which no matter where we are, we are always on-line, including, at times, via more than one device simultaneously.
While I agree with the point, i would like to remind everyone about the insane amount of news papers and print magazines that where produced, printed, shipped, read once and then discarded, especially up to the early 2000s before paper sales started to tank. I think it’s muchore effective and cheaper to transfer this content via the Internet instead.
Best time to access that website is when it’s daytime in Spain, BTW. Though this is probably not a huge issue this close to midsummer.
But why is this thing wasting so much electricity on my side with black text on bright white background?
