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[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 50 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

god what I wouldnt give to go back to the days of the mid 90s, when the internet was nothing more than a collection of tech weirdos, with websites being nothing more than passion projects with no advertising, no SEO, no search engines, etc etc.

[–] SergeantSushi@lemmy.world 18 points 17 hours ago (2 children)
[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Tried a few searches. "no results". Oh well

[–] SergeantSushi@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

It's a small web search engine so there is not a result for everything (as there was in the early Internet). The 'Explore' feature is probably more entertaining (stumble upon-esque) than using it as an actual search engine.

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 3 points 15 hours ago

Will give a spin

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

there was plenty of advertising on america online though almost ever keyword was to a business that was an advertisement.

i do agree that web 1.0 and the 90s internet was superior

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

~~will give a spin~~ Sorry answered wrong comment. Big finger issue

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Can't we go back? What's stopping you?

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 28 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

the pesky linearity of time as we understand it.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I'm going to risk that going back to personal websites would be a blast. And people would enjoy it.

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 9 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (3 children)

People on neocities: "what's stopping all of you?"

The small-web exists and thrives in its little bubble of creativity

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Neocities? what even is.....

Oh.

Such style. Such creativity. Personality in design! It's like looking back into a lost age from when things were allowed to be fun. None of this 'advertiser safe minimalism'.

This makes my brain do the happy chemicals.

[–] h0p3@lemm.ee 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

This one is mine: https://h0p3.neocities.org/. Lemme know if you make one. I'll read.

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

I do have a personal website, but i'm using github to host it. My current works makes heavy use of generative ai, so I haven't shared it around lemmy due to overwhelming negative opinion regarding ai content.

btw, yours is super cool.

edit: the text on the tab is ANIMATED

the text on the tab is ANIMATED

I hate that this is not used more. This is dope!!

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 15 hours ago

Does self hosting, at home, really pays off nowadays, or does hiring server space is a mandatory requirement?

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

what is that, some successor to geocities? or is the naming convention purely coincidental

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 1 points 11 hours ago

Successor by a small community, forget the chain of events but, basically yeah.