A Love Letter to Geocities Sites

Re:A Love Letter to Geocities Sites by bigDinosaur on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @12:09AM (#32314996)

Diseases like Hep C were actually cured (a personal favourite counter to people who think medicine doesn't cure anything any more). Plenty of good things have happened, it's just you can spin any tech improvement as 'actually dooming us all' if you want to.

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Re:A Love Letter to Geocities Sites by tjr225 on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @12:26AM (#32315073)

You have to admit that the internet was more fun when it was enthusiasts expressing themselves, though. That’s the point of the post.

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Re:A Love Letter to Geocities Sites by bigDinosaur on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @01:01AM (#32315276)

Yes :)

perhaps people here who haven't seen it should go check out https://neocities.org/

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Re:A Love Letter to Geocities Sites by TedDoesntTalk on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @01:28AM (#32315426)

I created a site there dedicated to a video game I played as a child:

https://laserblast.neocities.org/

It was a lot of fun to build.

I had to use CSS to implement a <blink> equivalent.

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Re:A Love Letter to Geocities Sites by Cr4shMyCar on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @03:12AM (#32315951)

There's so many amazing sites people have made on Neocities. I personally didn't have the ethos and dedication to stick with it, but the fusion of creativity and technical skill makes it something else.

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Re:A Love Letter to Geocities Sites by Ma8ee on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @02:01AM (#32315606)

Aren’t places like TikTok full of enthusiasts actively expressing themselves?

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Re:A Love Letter to Geocities Sites by tjr225 on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @07:51PM (#32325855)

TikTok is filled popularity enthusiasts. That is their only concern: winning the algorithm lottery. It is a completely different environment than the web prior to 2.0. I... would hope you would know this?

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Re:A Love Letter to Geocities Sites by Ma8ee on Friday August 05, 2022 @05:07AM (#32353531)

I’m sure you know the motivation of every TikToker. And in the old days, no one tried to promote their website or find viewers? I guess the reason for web rings and why every little page had a view counter had nothing to do with wanting to be seen?

Or maybe your chauvinism make you think that showing of some technical prowess (because HTML with a bit of ecma script was really hard), is for some reason more valuable than dancing, singing, crafts or stupid jokes?

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Re:A Love Letter to Geocities Sites by Foobar8568 on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @01:09AM (#32315330)

Hep B is still not curable, and unfortunately, there is still a high stigma that it's sexual related disease while a vaccine exists.

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