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The old internet is actually still around. There's just so much noise and Google isn't going to direct you to it. Neocities is a platform that promotes those q
by dangarbri3 4y ago
The old internet is actually still around. There's just so much noise and Google isn't going to direct you to it.
Neocities is a platform that promotes those quirky personal homepages.
There are chat room/irc platforms like matrix and libera chat that still go on.
- anthk 4y agoA lot of Neocities pages are full of JS... It's better to seek out pages at http://wiby.me http://wiby.me
- graypegg 4y agoI find myself missing the creativity and passion of the old internet, rather than the specifics of how they were built. Is it really so bad that these sites have some scripting involved?
- heynowheynow 4y agoI miss Netscape on Windows 3.1 on a 4:3 CRT monitor in 256 colors with red on yellow Comic Sans bold italic H1 blink tag marquee with an unnecessary trail of ellipses scrolling left to right with 3 iframes with Java and Flash applets with a redirect to goatse. But seriously, I miss Pythonline, gopher, finger, IRC, and sunsite.
- anthk 4y agoIRC is still up, from Libera.chat (ex-Freenode) to efnet and so on. Gopher has lots of usage at gopher://sdf.org, gopher://magical.fish and gopher://floodgap.org. On Sunsite, Ibiblio it's still up. And Slashdot.
- heynowheynow 4y agoWithout VRML97, we wouldn't have PNG. Ah the bad old days. Netsplit!
- MisterSandman 4y agoWhy is JS mutually exclusive to the old web?
- ncr100 4y agoAI recommendations are a blessing and a curse on YouTube. More satisfaction from word of mouth (hand curated search index, effectively) hits than AI lately for me.
- uni_rule 4y agoFor me they're annoyingly self referencing. I rarely ever get recommendations outside my recent watch history so it feels like there's nothing to discover on-site outside of stretching the "my mix" playlist until it starts improvising.