Memex entry

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+title: (World Wide) Web
+emoji: 🕸️
+summary: The website part of the internet.
+---
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+I've been a little bit obsessed with the internet, and the web particularly, since about 1997. Using AOL to get online and looking at geocities sites was always a wonderous journey into the unknown for 12-year-old-me, and nothing's changed since.
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+As you can probably tell from this site, I enjoy designing & building websites — though I tend to keep my more obscure web experiments away from this blog, so it stays functional. This section of my memex includes websites, features and ideas I really enjoy and might try and replicate or develop with some more of that fabled spare time.

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+title: Web functionality
+emoji: ⚙️
+summary: Features of websites that are interesting or useful.
+draft: false
+tags:
+- www
+- web
+- webdesign
+- interactivity
+- design
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+## Asterisk Magazine
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+I love the design of [this magazine](https://asteriskmag.com/), the simple colours & design (as well as their ethos), but one little feature particularly is super intriguing!
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+On [any article page](https://asteriskmag.com/articles), if you highlight a block of text, an asterisk will appear which will let you bookmark that chunk of text — _entirely locally_. It stores the data in your browser's DB, so there's no data going back to the magazine about what the most highlighted section is, which is always nice.
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+I haven't explored this feature a lot, but I'd be interested in exploring whether the highlights can survive edits of the article? What referencing mechanism they use for storing the locations of the highlights? (Is it a [CFI](https://idpf.org/epub/linking/cfi/epub-cfi.html)?) Can you manually export your highlights later, in a format that allows for citations? It's all quitr exciting.