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# SFPC's HTTPoetics reads the handmade web as memory work
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/sfpcs-httpoetics-reads-the-handmade-web-as-memory-work/
- Published: 2026-09-02T01:52:50.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-02T01:52:49.000Z
- Description: Tyler Yin and Kayla Drzewicki revisit the class's hand-built sites: a CD-ROM homage, a hammam of grief, pop-up loops of a toxic relationship.
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: SFPC, net.art, web culture, education, HTML, Todd Anderson

The School for Poetic Computation published a lovely piece of maintenance on August 18: ["Sites for Remembering,"](https://sfpc.study/blog/sites-for-remembering?ref=killscreen.com) in which Tyler Yin and Kayla Drzewicki revisit the websites made during the third run of HTTPoetics, Todd Anderson's seven-week class on the poetics of raw HTML and CSS. [The announcement](https://www.instagram.com/p/DcMWNJsDMt%5F/?ref=killscreen.com) carries the thesis in one line: in a culture of generative abundance, making a website by hand is "an act of love that goes against the grain."

Gracielle Camara's [*iSpy World*](https://gracielle.neocities.org/iSpy%5FWorld/?ref=killscreen.com) remakes the I Spy books as a browser experience with a cursor-flashlight, straight out of the CD-ROM era of seek-and-find. Ethan Murakami's [*when you leave a window open*](https://ethanmurakami.neocities.org/httpoetics/wylawo/whenyouleaveawindowopen?ref=killscreen.com) narrates a toxic relationship through dialog boxes and pop-ups, where the only available "choice" is inaction, looping until the visitor finally closes the windows—branching structure used to model being stuck. AJ Toure's [*iophilia*](https://iophilia.neocities.org/cavesofillustriouswonder/?ref=killscreen.com) navigates cave scenes by collage; Azad Namazie's [*ham.mam*](https://sacredisplay.neocities.org/hammam/?ref=killscreen.com) opens bathhouse rooms with a ritual in each; Samiha Alam's [*do not stop the car*](https://s4m1h4.github.io/journey/?ref=killscreen.com) treats the site itself as a transitory space between memory containers.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/2026/09/Screen_Shot_2026-06-02_at_9.44.18_PM.png)

AJ Toure's [**iophilia*](https://iophilia.neocities.org/cavesofillustriouswonder/?ref=killscreen.com)

The class read Laurel Schwulst's line of thinking about websites as rooms and houses, and it shows: these are places, not pages. The argument underneath is the one Killscreen keeps making about games—craft as resistance to the generated and the forgotten—and it has a long tail here; back in 2016 we covered [a website built to remember the pre-broadband internet](https://www.killscreen.com/new-website-celebrates-stories-inspired-by-pre-broadband-internet/). Websites rot faster than memories do. Hand-coding one anyway is the point.

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