• @[email protected]
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    504 days ago

    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.

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          33 days 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.

    • katy ✨
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      124 days ago

      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

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      14 days ago

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

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          44 days ago

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

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            People on neocities: “what’s stopping all of you?”

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

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              83 days ago

              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.

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                  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

                  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘
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                    23 days ago

                    the text on the tab is ANIMATED

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

            • qyron
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              13 days ago

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

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              13 days ago

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

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        13 days ago

        Nothing, really.

        We’re the only ones stopping ourselves. The 90s and everything that made is ‘great’ is still here, we just choose not to use it.