A Love Letter to Geocities Sites

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Post by martialg » Mon, Aug 01, 2022, 11:44 PM UTC

A Love Letter to Geocities Sites
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Re: A Love Letter to Geocities Sites

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Post by themodelplumber » Mon, Aug 01, 2022, 11:51 PM UTC

Damn, and to think I almost skipped this link because I wasn't in the mood to read a letter!

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Post by Apocryphon » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 3:12 AM UTC

Sites like this belong in a museum!

Re: A Love Letter to Geocities Sites

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Post by jp0d » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 3:26 AM UTC

This needs more upvotes! How is this not at the top of HN!

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Post by chasing » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 3:30 AM UTC

This is amazing. I miss the days when the web truly felt like a vast tapestry of people energetically letting their freak flags fly.

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Re: A Love Letter to Geocities Sites

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Post by civilized » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 3:35 AM UTC

Five notable good things that happened after 1999:

1. Obergefell

2. First Black President

3. Wikipedia

4. .....idk, maybe CRISPR? Deep Learning? Avatar: The Last Airbender? I'm drawing a blank here

Re: A Love Letter to Geocities Sites

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 3:42 AM UTC

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Post by 0xbadcafebee » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 3:47 AM UTC

This is a masterpiece of fine art.

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Post by Agamus » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 4:00 AM UTC

Good medicine! I hope there are scores of us who see this and feel the immediate inspiration to recreate our old freak sites.

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Post by bigDinosaur » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 4:09 AM UTC

civilized wrote: post #6

Five notable good things that happened after 1999: 1. Obergefell 2. First Black President 3. Wikipedia 4. .....idk, maybe CRISPR? Deep Learning? Avatar: The Last Airbender? I'm drawing a blank here

Diseases like Hep C were actually cured (a personal favourite counter to people who think medicine doesn't cure anything any more). Plenty of good things have happened, it's just you can spin any tech improvement as 'actually dooming us all' if you want to.