I have always been a bit obsessed with serving static web content that is portable, cheap, maintenance-free, and easy to distribute and mirror. My reasons are practical. I often work on non-profit projects in my spare time, with little or no budget. The web is also changing fast: hosting and server prices are rising, and crawlers are devouring resources, making it harder to keep dynamic applications running. There is a political side too. The governance of the web is fragile, and content can be blocked, taken down or lost for political reasons. Content that is easy to copy and mirror...