I used to receive an email newsletter that I don’t recall how I signed up for. The premise was to give you a list of daily trending topics. This aspect of the newsletter utterly failed, but the result was even better.

Trending terms in the newsletter were linked to pages that were completely artistic “how is that done?"-style HTML-built sites that seemingly had no purpose but to exist and inspire. I used to look forward to those newsletters, which were otherwise mostly filled with random, untranslatable Swedish text with all of those strange, pretty to look at characters.

Today, the only sites, feeds, and email newsletters I can find that introduce new sites are all oriented around getting someone’s message or product in front of people. They’re not about web art for the sake of art. I miss web art.