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Re: Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s

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Post by Hydraulix989 »

shakna wrote: post #246
stavros wrote: post #220

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wasn't going to post this yet, but fuck it: I miss that era too, and I wanted to make it easier for people to publish their websites, so I made this with a friend: https://hearth.eternum.io/ It gives you a folder, like Dropbox. Drop some files in, and you have your own website (over IPFS). It's still early, but it should work well enough. I'd love to hear some feedback, if anyone tries it.

It looks great, but there is one question out of the box for me... What about updating the site? With IPFS this means a completely new hash unless you're running under (through?) IPNS, to point a domain at a new hash. If it's a new hash every time, you give up quickly because you don't want to propagate a new hash to any potential users every time (in the general case).

Maybe they can track the hashes and give us subdomains that redirect to the latest update?

Re: Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s

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Post by rpeden »

giarc wrote: post #132
rpeden wrote: post #2

Well, I certainly didn't expect this to make the front page. I just wish the guestbook still worked. :) I hadn't looked at the site in years and was actually surprised to find it still running. It's been on the same free hosting site for about 20 years.

I clicked on the FreeServers ad... hopefully you get paid :)

It's free hosting from the 90s, so no money for me! They inject that ad in exchange for hosting the site. Hopefully they're getting their money's worth today.

Re: Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s

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Post by iamwil »

StavrosK wrote: post #223
kyledrake wrote: post #97

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Can confirm, going strong. We don't get a ton of media attention (and when we do it's usually stupid and focused on anachronistic design rather than creative control), but we're still growing steadily and getting a lot of really interesting new web sites and traffic.

Hey, do you want to collaborate somehow? A friend and I built this, and I know you like IPFS, plus we both miss the Geocities era, so we can probably find something to improve: https://hearth.eternum.io/

I wanna say neocities already builds on top of IPFS. https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2015/09/08/its-time-for-the-...

Re: Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s

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Post by rpeden »

Lukeas14 wrote: post #27

That's awesome. I recently found my first site is up too( http://home.earthlink.net/~flighttime/justins/ ). Still running on free hosting from my family's ISP from 20 years ago. Complete with a Dodgers' schedule from 1998.

Baseball and airplanes? Awesome! If I'd made a site when I was 12, it probably would've looked a lot like yours.

Re: Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s

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Post by rpeden »

amasad wrote: post #214

Kids, btw, still like to build websites like this. At Repl.it we have a lot of teenagers using our product. Here are some of my favorite 90s style website: - Turn the volume one for this one and peep the marquee in the title: http://erikflynn.repl.co/Website/ - A music website "imma be link yall up with some good playlists" http://lexiecampbell.repl.co/Music/ - JACK WEBSITE: with a fun animated background and his "ba…

Thanks for sharing those! I'm having a lot of fun going through all of them.
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