https://components.ai/api/v1/files/lU2D634EozvqY92x0TYh/export/html is the thinnest possible application.
From there (let’s call this thickness 0) the thickness is monotonic.
In web1 the paylaoad of web client programs was somewhere between 0 & 1. A bunch of semantic HTML, maybe some CSS, eventually some JS.
Web2 we got Flash, we got the standardization & explosion of JavaScript, we got richness, dynamism.
Web3 is an attempt to push pages thickness backwards.
Folk programs are functionally web pages (whose address is either localhost:1234 or 1234.1234.1234.1234/$folkflake or folk.computer/t/$folkflake)