Wander: a decentralized console for the small web
A new project called Wander lets you drop two files onto your personal website — an index.html and a wander.js — and turn it into a node in a decentralized web console. Visitors click a button and are sent to a random page on your site, then to a site you’ve linked to, then to a site that one links to, going one hop deeper into the network with each click.
There’s no server-side component. Everything runs in the browser. Each Wander console maintains its own lists of pages to recommend and linked consoles. The result is a lightweight, human-curated network where every hop takes you further from familiar territory and closer to someone’s hand-built corner of the internet.
The code is hosted on Codeberg, and Susam Pal, who created the project, runs a working example on his own site. Adding a new console takes minutes — edit the page list, link to a few other consoles, and you’re part of the network. Nobody’s optimizing for engagement, nobody’s tracking clicks. Just people pointing at other people’s websites.