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# The slow internet, *and why we should build for it* A short meditation on patience, latency, and the kind of websites we'd all like to come home to. ## What we lost when we got **instant** The web of 2003 had a tempo. You clicked a link; a status bar filled; the page arrived. - It arrived with a small **ceremony** - A moment of held breath - A moment in which you *noticed* you'd asked for something > The page knew you'd waited for it. ### Three small things 1. Pages that arrive deliberately 2. Animations that mean something 3. Type that takes a half-second to settle ```js function thinkBeforeYouShip() { return "slowness is a feature" } ``` Read more at [field.notes](#). --- Written in Lisbon · 2026
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