Net Homeless

I first got on the Internet back in 1997. It was a completely different place. No social networks, no smartphones, no corporations controlling most of the traffic. The Internet back then looked more like a giant unstructured network of enthusiasts.

From the late nineties, I observed almost the entire evolution of the Web: from homepages on Geocities and Narod.ru to standalone blogs, web forums, RSS feeds, and finally to modern platform monopoly.

### Digital Tenancy vs Digital Sovereignty

Today, most users on the Web are essentially “net homeless”.

They rent profile pages on social platforms (Twitter, YouTube, Telegram, Instagram). They do not own the domain, they do not control the database, they do not own the hosting server.

If a platform decides to block your account, change its algorithms, or shut down, your entire digital footprint, your audience, and your content disappear overnight.

### Own Domain and Static Web

Having your own server, your own domain, and plain static HTML files is the ultimate form of independence on the internet.

No platform can ban your custom domain. No algorithm update can delete static files on your server.

Running your own blog is not just nostalgia — it is an act of maintaining personal digital sovereignty in an era of centralized corporate platforms.