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Re:We should replace Facebook with personal websites by will_brown on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:33PM (#18728275)
When YC experimented with applying/voting with YC applicants on HN, this was a part of my idea...tomorrowbook ;)

It’s part domain registration, web builder (simple website with fees you add content to via text message), part automated dns records, part social media/search engine.

So imagine these personal websites are all connected, one website can follow another, that’s it. You own the content, traffic, ad revenue. You could search content across these distributed websites with the tomorrowbook search engine, you could use tomorrowbook to register a domain (built in dns/website for the nontechnical) or use your own registrar and embed the tomorrowbook feed into your site.

Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11473190

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Re:We should replace Facebook with personal websites by cft on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:43PM (#18728398)
In 1997 it was called Webrings

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring

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Re:We should replace Facebook with personal websites by will_brown on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:55PM (#18728518)
Well without the domain registration, dns, webbuilder, social media functions and search engine.

But yes that seems to allow websites to link to one another.

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