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realitista@lemmy.world to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago

How to Relive the Old Internet With Neocities

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How to Relive the Old Internet With Neocities

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realitista@lemmy.world to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago
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Build your next website like it's not yet 1999. (Use lots of GIFs.)
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    ah, the nostalgia!

    I’m gonna crosspost this to !retronet@lemmy.sdf.org which is a community for ‘vintage internet’ discussions, and this is perfect

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    I have been using Neocities for years now. Because sometimes a simple static Website with a few images and some javascript just does the job.

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    Don’t forget to include the “construction worker with a shovel” gif and disclaimer that this page is under construction.

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      I had a bulldozer one!

  • Lemdee@lemmy.world
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    I tried to get into neocities like six months ago but I just don’t have the want to customize my own site with html from scratch anymore like when I was younger. I like that it exists still but there’s something to be said of modernization when you have limited time each day with other life responsibilities. That being said I hope it takes off!

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      Perhaps a kid will enjoy this today!

      • Lemdee@lemmy.world
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        Absolutely! I sure hope so!

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    That’s fantastic. So much great content was lost when the original sites went down

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      It wasn’t lost per se, Geocities was archived and you can download a torrent: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/GeoCities

      That page links to a web-accessible archive here: https://geocities.restorativland.org/

      In fact there’s some interesting 90s queer history here: https://geocities.restorativland.org/WestHollywood/Castro/ (beware that it contains some NSFW images if you scroll for a while)

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        It’s nice to know my Resident Evil 2 fan page lives on somwhere.

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    Old person here to grump about people who refer to the Web as “the Internet.”

    Some of us were online long before websites.

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    This sent me down a rabbit hole!

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