View Source

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View Source is a common feature on desktop web browsers that allows users to quickly view the HTML source code for a web page, and is one of the original ways independent web authors and creators learned how to code from existing web pages.

https://typo.social/@nettewerk/116309517292959205
- "The view-source era was exciting precisely because it motivated us to learn. You saw something cool, looked at the source, started to understand what the markup was doing, went down a rabbit hole. Curiosity leading to actual skill acquisition is fundamentally different from prompting an AI to build something you don't understand and can't maintain. #openWeb #AI #indieweb" @nettewerk March 28, 2026
2023-09-21 *The #ViewSource Affordance*

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