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

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Post by stevekemp »

jypepin wrote: post #346
stavros wrote: post #220

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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.

ah that's very nice. I started building a "blogchain", which is a decentralized blogging platform, to learn how to use ethereum. probably won't release anything as I learnt what I wanted, but it's nice to see some other projects like that. congrats :)

Make it really retro - instead of a blogchain you'll need to make it a webring!

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Post by madez »

noway421 wrote: post #360
mirimir wrote: post #271

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That is sweet! And then there was hell.com and associated sites. But I find no video :( Basically, once you paid $100 to repurchase your soul, you got lifetime access, and a hell.com email address :)

On an unrelated note, that makes me think, why facebook won't make a paid subscription version? I would dearly pay 10-20 bucks per year or whatever they are getting from me and never see ads or get my data shared with advertisers.

Then the people who didn't pay would feel as second-class citizens who can be scrutinized, analyzed, and their profiles sold. That awareness would be deadly for Facebook, because not enough people would be willing to pay.

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Post by 1337biz »

starsinspace wrote: post #108
Legion wrote: post #54

I miss this era of the Internet. It represents a period of time where average people used the open Web to publish , rather than post on a corporation's platform. Obviously there's been plenty of development since then that I would not give back, but people favoring publishing their own sites rather than posting on social media is not incompatible with those developments. That part didn't need to be lost.

When talking about this, people often like to joke about the webdesign back then. But the personal websites had personality. Facebook profiles feel like government forms to me... "here, fill in this standardized array of fields with your personal data."

I still have that feeling about Facebook. It looks and acts like the central web registry authority.

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Post by thanksgiving »

cylinder wrote: post #240
oldcynic wrote: post #155

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Not true. Plenty of non-technical people had a web page up like this one. Nearly all ISPs included some webspace, and enough instructions to get going. Lots of people put up something on user.demon.co.uk or geocities about themselves, their hobbies or their pets etc. Having a web presence died off somewhat as people moved over to myspace and Livejournal then geocities and tripod started being abandoned. Then it start…

Yep. I miss the magic of FTPing into your ISP and having that little folder where you could drop simple HTML files.

You can still drop html files on GitHub!

If you're feeling extra fancy, you can switch to gitlab to write and publish static websites in any framework of your choice (including plain html of course but you can use any framework of your choice such as Jekyll or even Vue Nuxt) right from the browser thanks to the power of the gitlab-ci.yml file. As someone who very much dislikes installing node js on my computer, I think this is fantastic.

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Post by brokenmachine »

TipVFL wrote: post #258

When I was in high school I created a website just to annoy my cranky teacher, Mr. Davis. The concept was simple, I got people to constantly ambush the teacher in the middle of classes and hug him while I took pictures. Then I posted them to the website, Hug Mr. Davis, along with really dumb text. It got a little out of hand, there's a picture on there of a football player tackling Mr. Davis in the middle of a lesson…

Happy pants?

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Post by dddw »

rcruzeiro wrote: post #52

XOOM counter! I can't believe I forgot that XOOM existed back in the day

yeah man, they had a whole 10MB free hosting! way bigger than geocities! I had two accounts for a website, one with pictures and one with the html. I only have the html archived :(
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