Solid – Reshape the web as we know it

Re:Solid – Reshape the web as we know it by adventured on Saturday September 29, 2018 @01:28PM (#18101603)

> Does anyone else feel nostalgia for the pre-"web app" days of the internet? I'm talking about personal sites on Geocities and web rings built on communities of shared interest.

I don't understand the premise. Tumblr is / was over ten times larger than Geocities. It did what you're describing. It was still wildly popular with young people just as recently as a few years ago.

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Re:Solid – Reshape the web as we know it by reaperducer on Saturday September 29, 2018 @01:41PM (#18101665)

Tumblr wasn't personal in the way that Geocities was.

With Geocities you could see millions of high school art students demonstrating for the entire world that they don't know the first thing about design or color.

Tumblr is the epitome of a walled garden. The flowers look pretty, but you still have to plant them in neat, orderly rows. Even Facebook's Pieces of Flair offered more of a creative outlet.

You can still make oversized blinking purple Comic Sans text on a black background above an animated "Under Construction" GIF. But you have to do it in CSS.

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Re:Solid – Reshape the web as we know it by eigenloss on Saturday September 29, 2018 @07:31PM (#18103606)

You're both talking about Tumblr like it's dead. Tumblr will never die.

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Re:Solid – Reshape the web as we know it by TuringTest on Saturday September 29, 2018 @06:04PM (#18103164)

> With Geocities you could see millions of high school art students demonstrating for the entire world that they don't know the first thing about design or color.

They've moved to DeviantArt now.

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