Mark this down as one of the strangest things I’ve seen in a good long while. Nicholas Jitkoff has made a tool called itty.bitty that creates websites with all of the assets being contained within their own link. You can create a website without any HTML or CSS resources at all because it’s all been base64 encoded into the URL itself.

Take this crazy looking URL, for example:

https://itty.bitty.site/#How_it_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

This link contains all of the HTML and CSS that makes up the website. The really cool thing about this is that you don’t need a server to make an itty.bitty site — once you paste the link above into the browser it’ll fetch some code from the itty bitty domain then extract and inflate the data from there.

I’m not entirely sure how useful this is but it’s certainly a novel concept to me! Go ahead and start making your own itty.bitty sites.

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