social media failed, big centralized places either comply or gets shut down, 4chan is allowed because interesting content doesn't stay available for long, will we see a return to personal pages and blogs in our lifetime?
>>109408056>will we see a return to personal pages and blogs in our lifetime?noif you were actually alive in the 90s you'd know this stuff was boring and vapid as hell
>>109408056marginalia.nuPosting on Substack is a better option if you want to change the worldIf you have a blog you’re just babbling to yourself and the LLM scraper bots unless you flog your blog hard on a microblogging site t. has multiple blogs
>>109408056bing tried to kill neocities
>>109408056"personal websites" worked back then because everyone on the internet was a nerdnow everyone on the internet is a doomscrolling zombieyou've always been free to make your personal site, it just won't get any traffic besides bots
>>109408056>4chan is allowed because interesting content doesn't stay available for long4chan is allowed because it's a honeypot
>>109408916and nerds
>>109408249How?
>>109408056>finish updating my blog on neocities>decide to browse other peoples subdomains>every other page is a winXP desktop clone
>>109408056Back then your site would get a dozen views because there were so few people online. If you made a site now that got a dozen views you'd regard it as a failure and go back to twitter/Reddit/4channel whatever
in current year, anything you say will trigger someone into ddosing your site nonstop for 6 months straight
The classic blogosphere has basically dissolved and the parts have been cannibalized bytwitter and the likes, where you can post your hot takes and get "engagement" andsubstack, that's more like a classic blog, but with more of an author-audience than peer-peer dynamic.If you want a homepage that has some sort of engagement, you basically have to combine it with microblogging activity, like on tumblr.I have seen quite a few Strawpages, but they're for the fanfiction types that like drawing pedophile cartoons.If you do something vaguely creative, like making soundfonts for your touhourune arrangements,it's still useful to have a proper homepage where you can share things with your fellow enthousiasts.
I haven’t updated my blog in months because I have nothing worth writing about.
>>109408989https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/01/27/bing-block
>>109409462no one does, you're just not believing in yourself enough is the problem
>>109408056Probably not, and the biggest issue isn't even technical, but that the culture has changed dramatically. The cultural and social dynamics of 2026 would be utterly unfathomable to someone in the 1990s, and honestly the converse is also somewhat true, though to a lesser extent. We do not live in that 1990s world and so the things that made sense then do not make sense now. Consider that back then it was quite uncommon to know random people that you'd never met in real life, or that were scattered all voer the world. It was a much more open culture because meeting random far flung people and being able to instantaneously communicate with them was a novel and exciting thing, and so people were extremely open to doing so. It was not the hardcore antisocial cliquey exclusionary culture we have now.Also back then the internet was like 95% educated, reasonably well off White people and first worlders.
>>109410137>neocitiesman, every single featured site they list is tryhard af non-authentic slop that seems to think people made vaporwave websites plus tons of faggot/transsexual/furry shit you never would've seen in the 90sreal 90s sites were the same few dozen gifs, a bunch of ripped sprites from games, anime screencaps, and midi versions of game/rock music
>>109408069Exactly, these people were looked down on as losers. We are reverting back to the mean.
>>109410748I agree with the "I wish I grew up in the 90s" phony vaporwave sites but lets not forget I'm pretty sure geocities had an entire neighborhood for fags back then. The only difference is there are no neighborhoods, only tags, so things get pushed up easily exposed.
>>109410788I'd switch back if that means normies are jeets are off the internet again. They don't know what to do with tech and should just be used as worker bees
I am a metaphysical solipsist I do not believe in the existence of others.
>>109408056>4chan is allowed because interesting content doesn't stay available for longHow gullible that you actually believe that. 4chan became a glowie honeypot after moot sold out. They offered him a cushy well paid do-nothing job at google for the handover of this platform.
>>109411709>afterLOLAnon...You poor sweet naive child.
>>109408056No one cares about these personal pages/blogs.Most people don't really have anything interesting to say unfortunately. (That also includes you and me)That's why they died out and is exactly why they only remain as a forgotten novelty that only young people seem to care about.
>>109411783I wish forums would make a come back though, because many people actually do have some stuff to say, though seldom the sort of thing that can stand on its own. In the context of a discussion though? For sure.
>>109411846Discord is the modern day equivalent of forums.
>>109411709how do you know moot wasn't a plant from the beginning is he even a real person?
>>109411783>No one cares about these personal pages/blogs.Good. That means there will be no one seeking them out to destroy them.Also, they didn't die out because nothing was on them. They died out because social media networks(like old myspace which is far superior ot facebook even now) allowed them to create personal pages without needing to know much html.That's the truth. Also search engines were starting to prune them from the web in favor of other sites. Look at the internet archive. They fucking saved tweets, but geo-cities a far more impactful and huge portion of the free net? It's gone.
>>109411846forums are not dead. You can find many that actually get 20-200 daily active users. Ex: spacebattles.net. The main issue with forums is fags like (you) are scared to make a thread. Everyone is standing around silently waiting for Chad to start a conversation, and he never does, so they just leave. The solution is to treat forums like your personal blog/twitter/dumping ground just like people did when they were active.
>>109408056>and blogsautoadmit is pretty active
>>109412039List all the active forums please. All I know is stevehoffman and kiwi. Spacebattles looks interesting but the search function requires cloudflare and I'm fucking sick to death of that shit. I only put up with that and spur/mcl here because there's nowhere else to go.
>>109412365XO
>>109408056>4chan is allowed because interesting content doesn't stay available for longNo, its allowed because the US president Donald Trump is defending 4chan from European censorship.
>>109412517ThisTrump protects
Even Usenet is seeing a gradual uptick in users, I would say the bottom was a good decade ago now. Some groups get dozens or hundreds of posts per day.Google cutting off access eliminated almost all of the spam.
>>1094117094stein has the mark of the chosen
>>109408056Is there any actual useful content on these? I only once went down on an interesting rabbithole on some indie sites before my private window crashed never to find those again. Most people just have an about page with the same copy paste style and thats it.Nobody runs a blog to actually replace their socials, nobody posts actual content.I don't care that you're a mentally ill zoomer, you dont need to tell me your life story in 5000 words on your vomit looking page, just run an FTP with some cool rare shit you have.It's just an as they call "aesthetic" to them, all larping bullshit.If you're just gonna post shit that won't even get you shadowbanned on the big sites whats even the point? Thats the main thing with the "you've nothing to say" argument, yeah that people been brainwash to only ever have corporate approved opinions even if they're off corpo platforms, apparently even in real life zoomers selfcensor like crazy.If I did one I'd probably run it on tor or smth since all the new censorship laws.>>109410273Pretty much>>109410748Oh yeah those are my favorite the "I miss 2016 just without the transphobia" zoomer i mean holy shit>>109411857Id argue discord was the actual irreversible death of the internet, far more so than social media because at least most of you tards will realize the damage of social media and dont use it but you do use discord happily.
>>109408990With pronouns and gay flags.
>>109408056>social media failedIt's still raping everybody every day
>>109408056I've sent thousands of hours building my site. Much better use of my time than doom scrolling slop on Reddit or Facebook, or arguing with idiots. I doubt most people will be willing to put in the effort though.
>>109408056> http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/4294/> this webpage will get betterYea! id say... this young nigger made YAHOO! From that?!?!?
>>109411857discord contains a lot of noise and spam out of the visible internet which is a good thing
https://geocities.restorativland.org/TimesSquare/Zone/3599/SOUL
>>109415302Looks great. Post a link
>>109408056blogs were always shit and mainly sad egomaniacs that evolved into 'influencer' arseholes, the internet is dyiong get an offline lan with nas for media and gaming and sit and laugh while ithe internet burns down via cloud datacentre garbage
>>109415506if it needs a usename and password into the thrash it goes, on your offline lan you will never have to type a usename or paswword again and neither will any of the real frens you should get when you spin up a lan game
>>109415302>I've sent thousands of hours building my site. Much better use of my time than doom scrolling slop on Reddit or Facebook, or arguing with idiots.>I doubt most people will be willing to put in the effort though.
>>109417694king of projection award
>>10940805675% of it will be in permanent "UNDER CONSTRUCTION".
>>109408056>will we see a return to personal pages and blogs in our lifetime?No. And independent site will be ddosed by hundreds of ai scalpers and bots.
>>109417999There are shitton of blogs/sites running on all kind of super obsolete hardware and they're doing just fine.http://wp.xin.at/ - running on ibm pentium prohttps://fv390.hs.bam.moe/wec - running on ibm s390Thing is you can't find those small websites with google, they never pop up so you have to manually scrape them from other obscure blogs. Kinda the same as you would "surf" the web back in the day.
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>>109417615Thank you, it can be found on the first page of Neocities, at least at present: https://neocities.org/browse
>>109415377>>109416221>TimesSquareMy Geocities site was in that neighborhood. I started it not long before Yahoo took over
>>109420697Got any screenshots?
>>109418463Oh shit, it’s my printer, an absolute unit and indestructible, toner lasts for like 30,000 pages, absolutely incredible. HP LaserJet 4000TN. Get one.
>>109411456who are you speaking to?
>>109411857discord servers cannot be viewed publicly or without an account so, no.
>>109408056>No "under construction" gifsbraw....
youtube replaced personal blogits easier and faster to make channel and some video about yours obscure autistic interestwhatever you seek you'll always find a small channel with 1k follower about anything, its just concentrated on youtube now because its more convenientthe content quality is actually better and easiest to find
>>109419650I could not get Google to index my Neocities site until I setup Google Analytics and put a Gtag tracker in the index.html. Google have you by the balls
What sort of bread you all like? I like sourdough.
>>109408056>we see a return to personal pages and blogs in our lifetime?Yes, AI has made it supper easy to generate static websites for anything, more customizable than ever. Only tricky part is to find a good host that won't rape you wallet on domain renewal.
>>109427669Namecheap isn't bad.
>>109408056>4chan is allowed because interesting content doesn't stay available for longyeah, i'm sure the feds would allow their playground to be shut down by their coworkers
>>109427490I like pumpernickel.
can webrings and personal static html websites in general and be assumed to be content written by actual humans, or are AIs slopping up full web pages by now that look authentic? Do AI jeets and bots even bother infesting the small/indie web or is it safe for now as long as there's no monetization?
>>109427490rye
>>109427490Best bread I've ever had was a walnut sourdough from the local bakery.
>>109408056One issue which greatly cripples the rebuild of an old style internet is that search engines no longer exist. So you would have to build a replacement for that too.
>>109432977Yacy
>>109408069>nohttps://neocities.org/>>109408069>if you were actually alive in the 90s you'd know this stuff was boring and vapid as hell I dunno, Geocities, Alta-Visa, Angelfire, Tripod, Xoom, and free IPS webstorage hosting were all great. I miss the shanty town interweb.
>>109432977Why not just create a search engine that ignores 90% of the google targeted(and affiliated) websites and just have a smaller curated and trusted list of web sites? And give people the ability to block websites from showing up in search results?
>>109408056My geocities page was mostly stolen from other peoples webpages. I really liked the colors on this one guys page so now I’ll forever remember the hex for “cornflower blue”also, I used those frame things and tried to make it look cool, then it got too complicated and MySpace came out so I went there and wowed all my friends with my html skills
What is the best free web host to make a website? I don;t care if it gives me like 500MB or whatever. I just want to make a trash HTML page with annoying .gifs, MIDI music, those 'under construction' images, frames and backgrounds that are eye cancer.
>>109433742Gitgub pages, Vercel & Netlify. but keep your file sizes under 25 to not trigger something, despite the 100mB limit using git.Prompt the AI to use puck or craft.js to create a UI to drag and drop stuff on you page.
>>109433742Neocities works too
>>109433597>I used those frame things and tried to make it look coolImagine there was a time where CSS didn't exist and you couldn't fix a div on a website.Oh and your guestbook was a poorly written perl script that loaded the whole html and inserted the new comment at the top of the li. So fun inserting javascript tags there.
>>109433540>I miss the shanty town interweb.I read it as "sharty town interweb"
idk if it's clickbait but I keep seeing they're mounting a relaunch of myspace to bring back the "I just want a digital address/profile/landing page" crowd and combat the "everything is algorithmic doomscrolling containers" trend now
>>109423836He's a retard, I don't think he can answer even a question this simple.
>>109408056no. neocities tries to bring that back, but it is and will stay a niche thing. also ignore these faggots >>109408069 >>109410788, the 90s internet was great.
