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OSSMILE

// a deliberately tiny website about good news

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v1.0 · [ACTIVE] · Astro · Vercel open →

A hand-made corner of the old web that only carries good news. Daily posts on things that went right, alongside a reading room and zine, cartoons, mixtapes and postcards, an arcade of small games, a horoscope, trivia, and trackers for eclipses and launches. No algorithm, no infinite scroll, no engagement mechanics. Sign the guestbook on your way out.

> 115 good-news posts and counting, published daily
> Arcade, zine, mixtapes, horoscope and trivia — all hand-built
> Period-correct skins, down to Hot Dog Stand

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> screens

The OSSmile front page in its 1999 GeoCities skin: a newspaper-style masthead with the date, issue number and moon phase; a sidebar of sections; a welcome panel and the latest dispatch; and a panel for switching the site between period skins, beside word-of-the-day and today-is boxes. — front page · 1999 GeoCities skin, in its October costume

The same OSSmile front page in the 1995 Netscape skin: grey page, serif type, plain blue links, inside a Netscape window frame. — same page, 1995 Netscape skin · the skin switcher restyles the whole site

The OSSmile post archive: every dispatch, newest first, filterable by category, each with a headline, date, the mood it was written in and a short summary. — the archive · every dispatch, freshest first, each with the mood it was written in

The OSSmile arcade: a neon marquee above a row of game cabinets, starting with Zork I and Colossal Cave. — the arcade · free cabinets, emulated text adventures and games built for the site

> what it is

A small website about good news, happy nonsense, and things that make the world feel less heavy. It is built the way sites were built before engagement was a metric: no algorithm, no infinite scroll, no recommendations. A person, some snacks, and an unreasonable fondness for the old web.

The chrome is part of the point. The site wears period-correct skins — Netscape, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Phoenix, and Hot Dog Stand — and keeps a guestbook.

> what is in it

>A daily post on something that went right, with the mood it was written in.
>Reading room and zine; cartoons, mixtapes and postcards.
>An arcade of small games, plus a horoscope, stickers and trivia.
>Sky pages: eclipse and launch trackers, for the ones worth looking up for.

> status

Live and publishing daily, past 115 posts. Astro, deployed on Vercel. Tracked on the OSS Jira board.