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A 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 th

A 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 ago
Cool! 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 ago
  Although 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 :)
  - timvdalen 8y ago
    Ah that's cool, the Town had better show off all of the cool camps :)
    - TeMPOraL 8y ago
      Done!
  - TeMPOraL 8y ago
    Thanks; updated town page with some hand-written JS that makes use of this :).
timvdalen 8y ago
Really fun idea, playing with it now!
terramex 8y ago
This is great! I love it! I've been looking for an 'uncool' space to create little, text based personal website and it seems to be perfect.
- TeMPOraL 8y ago
  Hello from fellow Pole. Saw your page. Love the video :D.
- terramex 8y ago
  I kinda finished my personal space: https://hackernews.hypertext.town/~kuba https://hackernews.hypertext.town/~kuba I didn't touch any web development in at least 10 years so it was a lot of fun. I hope even more interesting towns will appear!
  - TeMPOraL 8y ago
    Nice! I regret to report though, but something is broken - nothing above the SUPERHOT videos section is clickable :(.
    - terramex 8y ago
      Ah, of course copy pasting random CSS snippets from internet isn't good idea. Who knew? Just fixed it, I had invisible div over whole page.
  - masonicb00m 8y ago
    Great job on SUPERHOT! All the smashed monitors are worth it ;)
adventured 8y ago
I like it. I hope you keep going with the project and flesh it out further.
kinos 8y ago
You reinvented webrings.
- ori_b 8y ago
  Is that a bad thing?
- flukus 8y ago
  Sounds more like geocities. Considering how much google search results dictate whether you come across information or not though, I wonder if webrings could make a lot of the web more visible these days?
aydwi 8y ago
I know what I'm doing this week
headsoup 8y ago
Schools should do this, let their kids explore the joys of building their own personal online space, rather than the branded and conformed offerings they'll likely use instead (FB, Google, Pinterest, etc)
- TeMPOraL 8y ago
  Yup. Sounds like less "technical" interface to a web server. I remember in high school we all had shell accounts on the school server, but you actually had to learn SCP and some basic Linux usage to make it work.

TeMPOraL 8y ago

Cool! 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 ago
Although 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 :)
- timvdalen 8y ago
  Ah that's cool, the Town had better show off all of the cool camps :)
  - TeMPOraL 8y ago
    Done!
- TeMPOraL 8y ago
  Thanks; updated town page with some hand-written JS that makes use of this :).

timvdalen 8y ago

Really fun idea, playing with it now!

terramex 8y ago

This is great! I love it! I've been looking for an 'uncool' space to create little, text based personal website and it seems to be perfect.

TeMPOraL 8y ago
Hello from fellow Pole. Saw your page. Love the video :D.
terramex 8y ago
I kinda finished my personal space: https://hackernews.hypertext.town/~kuba https://hackernews.hypertext.town/~kuba I didn't touch any web development in at least 10 years so it was a lot of fun. I hope even more interesting towns will appear!
- TeMPOraL 8y ago
  Nice! I regret to report though, but something is broken - nothing above the SUPERHOT videos section is clickable :(.
  - terramex 8y ago
    Ah, of course copy pasting random CSS snippets from internet isn't good idea. Who knew? Just fixed it, I had invisible div over whole page.
- masonicb00m 8y ago
  Great job on SUPERHOT! All the smashed monitors are worth it ;)

adventured 8y ago

I like it. I hope you keep going with the project and flesh it out further.

kinos 8y ago

You reinvented webrings.

ori_b 8y ago
Is that a bad thing?
flukus 8y ago
Sounds more like geocities. Considering how much google search results dictate whether you come across information or not though, I wonder if webrings could make a lot of the web more visible these days?

aydwi 8y ago

I know what I'm doing this week

headsoup 8y ago

Schools should do this, let their kids explore the joys of building their own personal online space, rather than the branded and conformed offerings they'll likely use instead (FB, Google, Pinterest, etc)

TeMPOraL 8y ago
Yup. Sounds like less "technical" interface to a web server. I remember in high school we all had shell accounts on the school server, but you actually had to learn SCP and some basic Linux usage to make it work.