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Welcome to 1997! This is how Geocities, Tripod etc worked back then (I think geocities.ws has FTP access too, for the complete experience). Amazing to see the w

Welcome to 1997! This is how Geocities, Tripod etc worked back then (I think geocities.ws has FTP access too, for the complete experience). Amazing to see the web coming full circle even on this.

caiob 8y ago
Exactly my thoughts. And we all thought technology wasn't cyclical.
LeonM 8y ago
Heh, I'm old enough to remember that experience! But yeah, it's basically like that but with some more modern features like being able to do this from a browser (no filezilla required!) and better control over HTTP headers and such.
- genericone 8y ago
  All of that could be done in Geocities as well =)
  - tobr 8y ago
    Geocities was enormously popular for good reasons. However, I don’t think it had the ability to preview a deploy or roll it back with 100% certainty that it will be exactly as was before, which is something you really need when deploying is (too) easy.
shadowoflight 8y ago
I have seen those exact words to describe Netlify - it's like Geocities, but for the modern web. I have yet to try it out for myself, but I'm thinking I may use it to get a personal site up and running since I have a tendency to take the power of running my own site on my own VPS a bit too far by changing it up (and usually breaking it) frequently...
- tw20190409mhbcd 8y ago
  There's also Neocities as an acceptable replacement for Geocities. It's also free, unless you want to use your own domain, which requires a $5/mo "donation" to become a Neocities supporter and unlock that and a few other features.
  - egeozcan 8y ago
    I wonder how they are doing. I hope they don't share the same fate as Geocities.
    - Aeolun 8y ago
      If they have but a few supporters I suppose they get all the running costs out of it.
    - tw20190409mhbcd 8y ago
      The guy who runs the site gave a talk a while back about how crazy cheap it is to host it, and why cloud vendors like Amazon and Google are making suckers out of people. "High Volume, Bandwidth Heavy Infrastructure On The Cheap" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i6wvix6buI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i6wvix6buI And I'm pretty sure he's also cryptocoin-rich, anyway.

Welcome to 1997! This is how Geocities, Tripod etc worked back then (I think geocities.ws has FTP access too, for the complete experience). Amazing to see the web coming full circle even on this.

caiob 8y ago

Exactly my thoughts. And we all thought technology wasn't cyclical.

LeonM 8y ago

Heh, I'm old enough to remember that experience! But yeah, it's basically like that but with some more modern features like being able to do this from a browser (no filezilla required!) and better control over HTTP headers and such.

genericone 8y ago
All of that could be done in Geocities as well =)
- tobr 8y ago
  Geocities was enormously popular for good reasons. However, I don’t think it had the ability to preview a deploy or roll it back with 100% certainty that it will be exactly as was before, which is something you really need when deploying is (too) easy.

shadowoflight 8y ago

I have seen those exact words to describe Netlify - it's like Geocities, but for the modern web. I have yet to try it out for myself, but I'm thinking I may use it to get a personal site up and running since I have a tendency to take the power of running my own site on my own VPS a bit too far by changing it up (and usually breaking it) frequently...

tw20190409mhbcd 8y ago
There's also Neocities as an acceptable replacement for Geocities. It's also free, unless you want to use your own domain, which requires a $5/mo "donation" to become a Neocities supporter and unlock that and a few other features.
- egeozcan 8y ago
  I wonder how they are doing. I hope they don't share the same fate as Geocities.
  - Aeolun 8y ago
    If they have but a few supporters I suppose they get all the running costs out of it.
  - tw20190409mhbcd 8y ago
    The guy who runs the site gave a talk a while back about how crazy cheap it is to host it, and why cloud vendors like Amazon and Google are making suckers out of people. "High Volume, Bandwidth Heavy Infrastructure On The Cheap" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i6wvix6buI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i6wvix6buI And I'm pretty sure he's also cryptocoin-rich, anyway.