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Make front end shit again
- karood 8y agowhen it worked at 33.6 kbps...
- Old_Thrashbarg 8y agoI wonder if there's some way to simulate the row by row image loading. I guess that's not the point of this website, but that would make me feel nostalgic.
- microcolonel 8y agoYou can see images load line by line today, if you throttle your network (either through Chrome devtools, or some external tool). Or just get a dialup modem, you probably have a provider you can reach, and the good ones can be plugged in through ethernet.
- bArray 8y agoJust throttle your router settings for download/upload - have fun! In all seriousness though, people designing websites should be given the shittiest connections possible and old computers (between 5 and 10 years old). Maybe then we'll end up with websites that haven't got more JS than content, broken CSS and images that push the page download over several megabytes.
- d2kx 8y agoChrome Dev Tools let you simulate shit internet connection (2G, slow 3G, fast 3G, etc.) and Google encourages to this for development for the reasons you've mentioned.
- bArray 8y agoIt's awesome it exists, but useless if nobody uses it. I think the Google homepage is the only Google product I'm aware of that loads fast, minimal CSS and still loads without JS. Even on a modern computer, some websites have become completely unacceptable to run in the background (i.e. Facebook). Installing NoScript and blocking external CSS was the best decision I ever made. Now use <25% of the RAM and <10% of the CPU I used to for the same number of tabs (in Firefox) - with a better experience because the browser isn't constantly trying to die. The UK Government site team is my go to for a good web design philosophy: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/government-design-principles https://www.gov.uk/guidance/government-design-principles (Hell, if they could run the actual Government like this we would be in a lot better shape!)
- herpderperator 8y agoDon't forget progressive JPGs, which loads the entire height of the image over and over with gradually increasing detail.
- weber111 8y agoClicking around a little on the OP site's gallery led me to http://blog.geocities.institute/ http://blog.geocities.institute/ and, in particular, to the post on the front page as of today, "9/11 and Vernacular Web" http://blog.geocities.institute/archives/5983 http://blog.geocities.institute/archives/5983, which catalogs Geocities pages updated on 9/11. Pretty haunting.
- reaperducer 8y agoLast week I was looking at an old CD-ROM of photos taken by a survey crew in the buildings around Ground Zero in the first few days after the attack. It was startling to see how many messages various people had written in the thick dust that covered everything. The most common message was one word: "Revenge!"
- exikyut 8y agoNow that would be genuinely interesting to have a look through.
- djhworld 8y agoBrought a smile to my face. Outside of the silly nostalgia, I do appreciate the personal blog/websites that are very minimal in their theming, while still looking modern and clean. The silly old geocities days were fun but, it's nice to have readable text too.
- bitxbitxbitcoin 8y agoFor me, it specifically brought a smile to my face, made it yellow, and put visible hearts in my eyes :).
- kbody 8y ago"We used to make websites because it was fun and at a point we lost the way." Indeed.
- gerdesj 8y agoI might have done this: http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html to an entire business division for a while. Might have.
- peatmoss 8y agohttps has ruined everything :-)
- reaperducer 8y agoThere was an Apple ][ game that did something similar. I think it might have been King's Quest. In the era when people used hole punchers to make flippy disks, if you accidentally put the game disk in your machine upside down, the game displayed upside down. Today you can make any Mac's display turn upside down with a few clicks in System Preferences. Someone in my office may or may not make this happen on machines that haven't been properly logged out when someone goes on vacation. (A quick Command-Option-8 is also good for some fun.)
- zaat 8y agoWho would have thought on putting the simple and prevailing combo Ctrl + Alt + Down Arrow as a default hotkey for this? And in a program you didn't even intentionally installed? Stupid Intel driver programmers, thanks for nothing, really. Still wondering if this came to life as an internal joke. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005491/graphics-drivers.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...
- Noumenon72 8y agoI thought that at first, but it is very handy when I take my laptop between normal monitor and vertical monitor.
- salawat 8y agoI just shed a tear. God, I miss Web 1.0.
- gerdesj 8y agoMe too: https://www.omfgdogs.com/ https://www.omfgdogs.com/ SSL cert WTF? LOL, laters
- bitxbitxbitcoin 8y agoWow... that brought back memories.
- scyclow 8y agoOh man, I love stuff like this. It's too bad that the web has been taken over by bootstrap, WordPress, and squarspace. But you can do a lot with raw html, css, and JavaScript! And as a bonus, it ends up looking really unique. It's sort of weird that whenever I show friends the dumb shit I make [1], their immediate reaction is lump it in with geocities. [1] ex. http://fastcashmoneyplus.biz http://fastcashmoneyplus.biz
- aeontech 8y agoThat is just beautiful :)
- scyclow 8y agoThanks! This one's my pride and joy
- Rotten194 8y agoI went through this up to where it actually asked for Ether -- is it real? Have people actually bought it? Regardless, this is art.
- scyclow 8y agoIt is real! A few friends and co-workers bought some, and I traded 500 fastcash to my roommate for a bagel. Two internet strangers also bought a little bit. I view it more as a donation-based project than an investment, so if you feel like buying me a beer, you should buy some fastcash :)
- _hl_ 8y agoI love how some of the morons on bitcointalk don't realise that it's a parody. Regardless, this is a masterpiece. I can't begin to believe to what lengths you went making it.
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- CodinM 8y ago>not writing pure HTML to make this
- prolikewhoa 8y agoIt already is shit? Web 1.0 was peak internet, when creativity was alive before normies and corporations started making every website 200MB of ad-loading javascript.
- reaperducer 8y agoPeak internet was August 31, 1993. Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
- qz_ 8y agowas gonna say this isn't mobile friendly but i guess that's the point
- bitxbitxbitcoin 8y agoWhat is responsiveness?
- 11235813213455 8y agoReminds me of lingscars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xZZ1c7diUI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xZZ1c7diUI
- jameskilton 8y agoI love the point the site is trying to make but I'm confused as to why this is built with a vue.js static site generator requiring node/npm/yarn and an almost 7,000 line yarn.lock file. Shouldn't this literally be a single page, hand-built HTML file with inline CSS? Is this trying to be self-ironic or something?
- jlgaddis 8y ago> ... but I'm confused as to why this is built with a vue.js static site generator requiring node/npm/yarn and an almost 7,000 line yarn.lock file. > Shouldn't this literally be a single page, hand-built HTML file with inline CSS? Is this trying to be self-ironic or something? Yes? I can't be certain but I think that was the point.
- gerdesj 8y agoShouldn't this literally be a single page, hand-built HTML file with inline CSS? Is this trying to be self-ironic or something? Yes, I'm going to assume that is a parody. However, signs of FrontPage or Word as an editor would be cool.
- madeofpalk 8y agoReminds me of the Bloomberg tech site, which had a lot of effort put into its 'brutalist' design to look like a 1995-era web page.
- zeusk 8y agohttps://www.bloomberg.com/politics/404 https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/404 https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/500 https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/500 https://www.bloomberg.com/500 https://www.bloomberg.com/500 Their error pages are still quite funny (and epic shit).
- denverkarma 8y agoThese are amazing, thanks for sharing!
- davidsawyer 8y agoNeeds a hit counter!
- zpr 8y agoThat sounds very intrusive. We should consider the privacy ramifications before tracking our users like that.
- booleandilemma 8y agoAnd a guestbook!
- tombert 8y agoI agree with the sentiment of this site. I have an nginx proxy set up for personal stuff, and the home page was done in an homage to GeoCities: https://brucewillis.sexy/ https://brucewillis.sexy/ Eventually I will get midi music playing correctly with mouse-tails.
- bmuon 8y agoI feel like your site is better than the OP site at what the OP site tries to do.
- reaperducer 8y agoNeeds more dancing hamsters.
- tetha 8y agoI just had to look this[1] up again. Made me very happy for some reason. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WpMlwVwydo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WpMlwVwydo
- jacquesm 8y agoI knew what that linked to before I clicked it. To get it really stuck in your head for the next 24 hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qN72LEQnaU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qN72LEQnaU
- screaminghawk 8y agoThe .sexy domains are rich with great simple sites. Like this site of Richard Stallman: http://rms.sexy http://rms.sexy SFW
- kaniskode 8y agoPatiently waiting for someone to register jeffgoldblum.sexy, which is available... The possibilities are endless.
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- jlgaddis 8y agoWhat, no <marquee>!?
- DonHopkins 8y agoI was hoping for at least one dancing baby.
- jlgaddis 8y agoThe lack of an "Under Construction" image -- or, more accurately, several of them -- is also notable, in my opinion. I seem to recall that every web site in existence in that time period was eternally "under construction".
- lgessler 8y agoCheck out Digital Folklore[1] if you're into this aesthetic, it's a good collection of essays on Geocities, the early web, and related topics. One of the authors' web site[2] is also worth a look (warning: there's sound :) ). She also runs a Tumblr blog[3] that posts screenshots of real Geocities sites. [1]: http://digitalfolklore.org/ http://digitalfolklore.org/ [2]: http://art.teleportacia.org/olia.html http://art.teleportacia.org/olia.html [3]: http://blog.geocities.institute/ http://blog.geocities.institute/
- objplant 8y agoWhen I see a page like that I remember Mahir's page and its popularity: http://mahir.faithweb.com/original.htm http://mahir.faithweb.com/original.htm It's nostalgic and definitely different from what we are used to today, but I don't really miss animated gifs, dozens of font styles and colors smashed together into a html. For me a cherry on the top was changing status message when hovering a link from target url to some custom text.
- citricsquid 8y agoA few months ago I created a project called Hypertext Town, a simple project where anybody can create "camps" (a collection of HTML, images etc.) and connect them together through "towns". A town lives at a subdomain (e.g: town.hypertext.town) and a camp lives at /~camp (e.g: town.hypertext.town/~camp). I never "launched" it so it's just been languishing in obscurity on the www but if anybody wants to make cute little creative HTML websites without the need for hosting, it's live to use at: https://www.hypertext.town https://www.hypertext.town 1. click "Set up camp in www" 2. make an account 3. choose your camp name 3. add your html / images etc. edit: visit https://hackernews.hypertext.town https://hackernews.hypertext.town (by TeMPOraL)
- TeMPOraL 8y agoCool! I like the simplicity. If anyone wants to play, I've made a town for us. https://residents.hypertext.town/join/hackernews https://residents.hypertext.town/join/hackernews
- citricsquid 8y agoAlthough undocumented, there is a way to programmatically get the camps in a town, you can check the www. town source for an example of how I've done it, the endpoint is `/camps`, e.g: https://hackernews.hypertext.town/camps https://hackernews.hypertext.town/camps :)
- shiado 8y agoAll that minified JS, fonts from a Google domain. At least playing lip service to the idea counts I guess.
- breaker05 8y agoI have fun making stuff like when I made https://goatattack.com/ https://goatattack.com/
- kiliantics 8y agoWow, I never knew I would need this in my life. Thank you!
- Theodores 8y ago"Please verify all input fields." You just missed out on $2.99 Does this work outside of the land of the 'free'?
- Camillo 8y agoThat was not "front end", that was webpages. There was no "back end" and no business, the webpage was the whole thing. And you were not paid as a "front end engineer" or even a "designer", in fact you were not paid at all, you were just some guy making a webpage.
- jordache 8y agohuh? Since when was making blinking text and displaying clip arts fun? Even back in the day, you knew web as a platform was handicapped, when compared to the awesome expressiveness of Macromedia Flash.
- Finnucane 8y agoNeeds a hit counter at the bottom of the page. Also, a webring link. Really, we should bring back webring links.
- reaperducer 8y ago> Really, we should bring back webring links I think the current equivalent is a "blogroll."
- madeofpalk 8y ago> We used to make websites because it was fun and at a point we lost the way I know this is just some little tongue in cheek joke, but I can't help but vehemently disagree with this. Never did we only make websites just "because it was fun" any more or less than we do now.
- wutbrodo 8y agoI'm not sure that's true. The internet has largely shifted away from using customizable www sites for personal expression in the way people used to. Much of this activity has now moved to Facebook et al.
- madeofpalk 8y agoI'm not sure that's true. People still have personal sites they use. Hell, I would argue that there are more ways for people to express themselves online now, and the raw number of people doing this is has massively increased. "Commerical internet" existed 'back then' as well.
- wutbrodo 8y agoYes, obviously people still have personal sites, and obviously there are more raw personal sites. But for the average internet user and thus the modal exposure to the internet, it's become substantially more one-way, outside of the aforementioned centralized channels.
- emodendroket 8y agoThey did in the sense that the kind of person writing this was once doing it for fun instead of a job.
- jdietrich 8y ago>Never did we only make websites just "because it was fun" any more or less than we do now. The early internet was incredibly frivolous. Commercial activity was completely banned on ARPANET and NSFNET. SSL didn't come along until 1995. There was a brief but significant period before the first browser wars and the dot-com bubble, when lots of people were interested in this new internet thing but nobody knew what it was for. I don't want to return to those days, but it's hard to overstate the extent to which the internet was just a toy for geeks.
- AriaMinaei 8y agoWeb pages used to be amazingly creative, with terrible usability. Now they're the exact opposite. Usability is good, but they all look the same. I wonder what social sciences have to say about this. About public opinion swinging from one extreme to the other, never seeming to be able to land on the sane middle.
- petra 8y agoIt's about maturity - trying many forms(creativity) and finding the forms that work(i.e. sell, bring search traffic) and reusing them over and over. The general process happens in many industries. and i don't think it will return to the wild creativity phase.
- ptx 8y agoThe used to be plenty of sites with great usability, in the style the FOX Toolkit website[1] still uses. Everything you expect is listed in a simple static menu to the left, requiring no hovering, no scrolling, no additional navigation. It's not trying to guide you to what they're guessing most people want (while hiding the things you actually want) with gigantic colorful buttons. Today's "usable" websites seem to consist mostly of gigantic irrelevant photos, huge expanses of whitespace, and navigation consisting of buggy JavaScript puzzles for the user to trick into showing correctly. [1] http://fox-toolkit.org/ http://fox-toolkit.org/
- krapp 8y agoLet's take the nostalgia goggles off though... the old web was more colorful, certainly less uniform, but I wouldn't call it "amazingly creative." Most of those sites tended to look a lot alike as well, especially on Geocities.
- daemonk 8y agoI think there is a function to "boring" website design. For the purpose of communication, it is great that we have a common dialogue, as boring as that may be. People recognize buttons, textboxes, tabs, etc and knows how to use them. There are certain expectations of where certain elements would be on a site and that allows us to navigate quicker. There should also be people who are pushing the boundaries of what design can look like, but I don't think that necessarily needs to be a majority.
- ajeet_dhaliwal 8y agoThis was nostalgic fun - thanks.
- h43z 8y agoI was just browsing Tilde Club [1] and then came here. Nice to see this on the HN homepage. [1] http://tilde.club/ http://tilde.club/
- oseph 8y agofront end stuff is fun! my playground: https://www.mondaysoups.ca https://www.mondaysoups.ca
- RobertRoberts 8y ago>Source code at Github This is why it's not fun anymore. Seriously, go look at all that crap you have to learn AND understand AND debug, ETC... The reason all this crap was "fun" before was because it was so damn easy. :(
- ivanhoe 8y agoYou totally don't have to do any of this to make this page work, I'm pretty sure all that js code is completely unnecessary...
- RobertRoberts 8y agoIs it possible she is of a generation that really has no experience coding a website by hand using no frameworks or any fancy code?
- Grangar 8y ago“The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.” - Socrates
- russdpale 8y agoThat is on purpose, to satire the overkill on many websites.
- RobertRoberts 8y agoWell if it was meant as satire, I don't feel it was successful. If it was meant as an example to replicate, I don't feel it was successful.
- b0rsuk 8y agoSounds like the Scratchware Manifesto, but for websites, not games.
- ibudiallo 8y agoI once read a comment here on HN about SEO, and someone was suggesting to start by buying a domain name that is your first and last name. I thought it was cool, but didn't see how it could improve SEO. But I bought it anyway[1]. I had nothing to put on it for a while, so I started just working on my own design skills replicating Google.com. It just a fun thing I do for absolutely no benefits to others. Great way of learning. Anyway, I check my other projects analytics and it shows that a large number of user sign ups come from that random for fun project. So yes, please keep building websites like these. Build your own terrible website and don't worry if they don't seem immediately useful. [1]: http://www.ibrahimdiallo.com http://www.ibrahimdiallo.com
- whitepoplar 8y agoVery cool!
- JansjoFromIkea 8y agoReally like this! Do you update it when Google make changes?
- ibudiallo 8y agoThanks! I will be on the look out for google changes to update accordingly.
- exikyut 8y agoThis is the coolest most original design ripoff I've yet seen.
- nickknw 8y agoOh that's clever! What a cool way to do your personal site. Definitely makes it stand out
- psteinweber 8y agoLove that! Would really like to have one for me too. You don't by chance want to offer hosting those as a service, do you? :)
- saravieira 8y agoHey! I made this dumb thing! Yes, the fact that it's made with vue and stuff is on porpuse, I wanted to make it with reasonml but didn't have any time so ended up with vue. The point is that we complicate so many shit today that is not needed Have fun and I will add some marquee tags!
- exodust 8y agoWhy did you add jquery to a list containing "blink" on a page with CRT monitors and animated GIFs? Let me guess, you have a negative opinion about jquery, that all anyone needs is vue.js
- derefr 8y agoI think the suggestion is that building a page with jQuery is now seemingly as “forgotten” a technique as building a page with plain HTML, despite being both a relatively-recent and still-valid approach to modern design. (Saying that nobody uses plain Javascript to build pages these days wouldn’t be as notable, and so not as funny. jQuery is just standing in for “plain Javascript” here, because it sort of was the only way to write plain Javascript that worked in all browsers, until browsers standardized on their JS APIs some eight years back.)
- exodust 8y agoI think you're being too forgiving of a lousy joke.
- wolco 8y agoMany I'm in the minority but if I need one small item I'll write pure javascript if I need a little more I'll use jquery, if I need an spa I'll use react or vue if I need an site/app I'll use the ionic or quasar framework. Use what you need.
- recursive 8y agojquery is a technology that has mostly outlived its usefulness, much like the others on the list.
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- superkuh 8y agoI've never strayed from the ideas this site is talking about (though not practicing). All my sites are static HTML/CSS written by hand designed to display content rather than look pretty. I make them for fun or to scratch an itch. The only line of JS I use on my personal site is optional to trigger a page reload to display a submitted comment with the rest. The comment system itself requires no JS to use. It's just a particular string, '/@say/your comment here' appended to any URL on the site. A perl script tails the nginx log and generates/modifies the static html files. I feel like most of this kind of design has gone away because the people that make websites make them for commerce now and that requires a lot of bullshit. Bullshit which they bring home if only because of inertia.
- kchr 8y agoNice and minimalist solution, I like it.
- Nadya 8y agoI mean, there are plenty of sites like this on Neocities [0] - which has a goal to be the New Geocities. :) If you seek it out, you can find the fun web again. But I do agree that it's a smaller and smaller fraction of the web. But with Facebook, why would people follow strangers on their websites when they can follow all their friends on Facebook? [0] https://neocities.org/browse https://neocities.org/browse
- slowmotiony 8y agoIt's already shit now and getting shittier with every new layer of abstraction
- dredmorbius 8y agoOutline perfectly captures this site. https://outline.com/DZmUUG https://outline.com/DZmUUG
- MulliMulli 8y agoWait - no burning skull gif on the site?
- xab9 8y agoOh boy, it's a bit far fetched if not downright cynical (or maybe I'm oversensitive and this was not meant to be a response to people who cry about minute long cached webpack compile times or megabytes of angular payloads). Frontend complexity went through the roof in the last ten years and compared to desktop software (not geocities) our developer tools and end results are not that great (ymmv). But that's just my personal opinion, after fifteen years of web development and growing up along the c64 - 286 - pentium road, debugging in Watcom and fooling around in Turbo Vision.
- adventured 8y agoIt seems like it has gone through the roof in just the last three or four years. I believe the added tools & complexity is an overwhelming negative in nearly all instances, unless you're building at hyperscale (which very few are). I keep seeing things like dental groups spending a lot of money to rebuild their sites in React for absolutely no good reason, it's all a big joke. I've been doing full stack development for two decades essentially non-stop, and I detest the new era of front end. I'm learning Go instead of anything more to do with front end. I put a bunch of time into Vue and React; the effect it has had, is to push me to banish those from what I build and pursue increased simplicity instead: JS minimalism. I'm rather in love with Go. It's simple, small, very easy to pick up, and extremely fast. It actually reduced complexity and made speed & power more accessible rather than less, the exact opposite of what's going on in front end (which is adding complexity and bloat). I blame it on the dramatic speed-up in JavaScript, the front end junk will keep expanding in bloat perpetually until it fills in the speed gains. It reminds me of the joke, about Andy Grove providing the increased transistor counts and Bill Gates figuring out new ways to waste them.
- wildrhythms 8y agoJavascript speeding up really has nothing to do with the front-end bloat. I think the problem is that there are a lot of (new?) developers in the frontend space who focus on learning a library (like Angular or React or Vue), and because these libraries have grown so complex in an attempt to solve any frontend problem that might be thrown at them, developers no longer feel the need to write a website without it. I'm not a purist by any means, but I do think we've come to rely far too heavily on frontend libraries... And not just a reliance, but an expectation of things like single-page applications. I'm sad when I see developers pulling 4-5MB of minified javascript on a page load for something that could have been accomplished in CSS or maybe a dozen lines of JS. :/
- MindTooth 8y agoI would rather opt for this then the modern JavaScript, large graphics, native code, etc., that is only there to bog down your system, and/or make your browser crash, and so forth.. (My opinion/experience.) When you have en article/text that require over 10 MB to load, I can't say I'm convinced of the benefit. The only reason I visited the site in the first place were to read the article (10-15 lines of text), and/or view some minor/related photos. Guess that's why Atom/RSS is on the rice again I suppose. (DISCLAIMER: Just started using Newsboat[1] via the terminal, and I freaking love it :) ) Note! That is not to say that there isn't some formidable people doing astonishing works, and should be credited accordingly. The web sprawls of infinite possibles, and have something that caters to all. [1] https://newsboat.org https://newsboat.org
- infodroid 8y agoIf you like this, then check out Neocities, a free and modern Geocities reboot: https://neocities.org/ https://neocities.org/ There are many fun sites to discover using the tag system, which emulates web rings: https://neocities.org/browse https://neocities.org/browse
- derefr 8y agoPeople still make these exact things, only now they exist as formatting within a post on a blogging engine, rather than as standalone HTML pages. Search “aesthetic gif blog” and you’ll find tons of them. As far as the “silly spamming of things between text” aspect goes—that’s still done as well, only now it’s done with emoji. (If http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/good-shit-sign-me-the-fuck-up http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/good-shit-sign-me-the-fuck-up isn’t an example of 1997-era melange-design aesthetics, I don’t know what is.)
- exodust 8y ago"Remember Jquery" doesn't fit there, it's still popular and kept current, as it should be, it's awesome and useful. Also I still use FTP (secure FTP of course), I use it for smaller projects on shared hosting and so on. It's completely fine.
- jd3 8y agoGod, I've been complaining about this for so many years now. The hardest part about duplicating the Web 1.0 aesthetic (well) has been finding the primary locations where the tile/image/iconsets originated and mirroring them for modern consumption — I'm still working on that. http://dataswamp.org/~john/ http://dataswamp.org/~john/
- dag11 8y agoI didn't think it was possible to fall in love with a website, but here I am. Nostalgia! I've been brainstorming ways to overhaul my personal site for a while now, and this is definitely the way I'll be going. Personal web pages used to mean something.
- severine 8y agoUpvoting and replying to your comment to say hell yeah!
- jd3 8y agoHey thanks! It's mostly just html/js/css/, but there is also some php (for the guestbook) that I've actually been meaning to port over to Go recently. I normally wouldn't use source control for a project as trivial as this, but I got tired of TRAMPing individual files over the wire ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://github.com/JohnDDuncanIII/dataswamp https://github.com/JohnDDuncanIII/dataswamp
- bmh_ca 8y agoI had a few moments to work on tko (knockout 4) this morning and I just have to say how happy I am with the ko methodology. Not to knock (pardon the put) any of the more recent forays into js/web-ux , but holy smokes I’m satisfied with ko and excited about its future.
- xab9 8y agoko was a pretty sane view engine back in the day, though their constructor pattern advocated in the docs will drive mem usage through the roof... but still Best and Sanderson are great devs. If you like ko, be sure to check out vue, you will feel right at home.
- kiechu 8y agoComic Sans should be obligatory.
- ada1981 8y agoAnthonyDavidAdams.com/memescope is my contribution.
- kennu 8y agoI've been hoping that VR would be the next web in this sense, but haven't seen it happen yet. It would be so cool to have a world-wide fully open Second Life.
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- la6470 8y agoBull
- baby 8y agoI want to see more flash stuff :c
- tlrobinson 8y agoPeople never stopped making fun stuff on the web, it just doesn’t have the same 90s web aesthetic or artisanal handcrafted bespoke raw HTML/CSS/JS the author is nostalgic for, and there’s so much more content now that it gets drowned out.
- fixermark 8y agoThis doesn't look right on my phone.
- n-gauge 8y agoBack in the day this would have taken 15 minutes to download - seeing this appear instantly loses some of what it conveys. Need some setTimeouts adding on those images.....
- mlok 8y ago"Salut c'est cool" is a French collective / group of friends doing this with websites, music, videos, everything. They ended up making a name in the music business, playing on huge music festivals since 2010, for the very reason of making everything quick & dirty for the fun. Lots of people want that actually. Website : http://salutcestcool.com/ http://salutcestcool.com/ Check out their Christmas Calendars (2010-2014) in the "Trucs" section. Funny stuff. There you can find "Facebook 2" http://www.salutcestcool.com/quatre/facebook2/ http://www.salutcestcool.com/quatre/facebook2/ or "make a webpage in a few clicks" : http://www.salutcestcool.com/quatre/page/ http://www.salutcestcool.com/quatre/page/ Music : https://youtu.be/hBduDuYXJHI https://youtu.be/hBduDuYXJHI
- jzzskijj 8y agoFortunately web is going behind the subscription model in accelerating speed. In a few years, when we can't justify subscribing to dozens of websites and paying hundreds of bucks for content we have no time to read, we're back in usenet reading single copy-pasted (pirated) articles for free.
- partycoder 8y agoIt was not shit. It allowed a lot of people to express themselves and be creative... beyond 140 characters or so.
- StavrosK 8y agoThis is fantastic, let's please make more of this. I made a Dropbox-like client that helps you easily publish these kinds of sites on IPFS: https://hearth.eternum.io/ https://hearth.eternum.io/ Just make the site and drop it into your ~/Hearth/ directory, it will be published automatically.
- Chetane 8y agoWas hoping the source code would also be good ol' hand crafted html, with <table> elements used for layout and so on...
- monetus 8y agoThis is really smooth on my raspberry pi. awesome.
- okonomiyaki3000 8y agoPass
- xamuel 8y agoSomething a lot of HNers seem to forget is that people used to build websites just for kicks. You like DragonballZ? You make a DragonballZ page on Geocities just for the hell of it. No adsense, no Google Analytics, no search-engine optimization or newsletter or investor pitch... that part of the early web seems to really have faded, and it's a pity.
- neRok 8y agoYes, you get it! Here's a screen shot of a website I never finished from 2003. Frontpage, tables, 3 gifs, ms paint graphics... this site had the works: https://imgur.com/Lulenom https://imgur.com/Lulenom
- bmpafa 8y agoHey, speak for yourself pal. Some of us have been making shitty websites all along.
- chris_wot 8y agoI literally read this as "make the front end shit again". Oops.
- ironjunkie 8y agoWhat happened in between is that the Multi-Billion startup guys took over. Now the web is the place for yet another pizza delivery startup with a super slick frontend. Websites are made industrially mainly to sell. All the big platforms took over. There is no place anymore for small self-hosted websites (or at least those are extremely rare) Call me cynical, which is probably true, but I remember the time when the web was the playground of the geeks. Now it feels like it became the playground of business majors.
- krapp 8y agoAbout 140,000 websites are added to the internet every day, though. Are you sure it's actually true that most of those sites are multi-billion dollar startups with super-slick frontends and that almost no one makes self-hosted sites anymore, or is it more likely that the web has gotten large enough that non-commercial, non SEO-driven sites are simply harder to notice? The "big platforms" are still a rounding error in terms of the total content on the web. The web isn't like old network television where there are a limited number of channels and limited number of slots for content. It hasn't moved from being the playground of geeks to business majors, but the playground of geeks to everyone, including, yes, the business majors.
- phendrenad2 8y agoPersonal websites served two purposes: 1) You could write about whatever you were interested in. 2) You could share things you had found on the web with others. These days, (1) has been superseded by YouTube and Facebook groups, and (2) has been superseded by Wikipedia/Google/YouTube.
- simpx 8y agothis site reminds me the old days, when I use frontpage, make some silly but funny stuffs that's the youth which have already passed.