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A Love Letter to Geocities Sites

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Re: A Love Letter to Geocities Sites

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Post by duxup »

_zetta wrote: post #58
dusted wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's never been used as much javascript in the history of time as right now, and it's never been doing as little as it does right now :P Because.. why use a perfectly good browser to render your html when you can implement another, lesser browser within the browser in javascript and have THAT render your html, but badly. Also, divs and css for layouts suck, TABLES is the way to go :)

I miss tables

I still work on some old sites / code that uses tables.

I LOATH tables. Flexbox is so much easier.

Re: A Love Letter to Geocities Sites

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Post by Kye »

throwawaycities wrote: post #98
aposm wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You clearly know that snatching up the trademark for a beloved name and reusing it for a crypto project is going to be unpopular, given you took the time to make a throwaway account. So then why did you brag about your trademark, registered to your real name, which can be found in 30 seconds?

> given you took the time to make a throwaway account. This account is more than a year old. I make lots of HN accounts and typically stop using them after 500karma. Like I said web3 is not popular on HN, you don’t even know the project (nor do others) but show disdain anyway because it is “crypto”. That’s not a reflection on me and what I’m doing with GeoCities, but the a reflection on people that dislike a project…

>> "FYI you’re on a platform that invests in startups, one of the most successful being a cryptocurrency exchange that went public and is responsible for the growth of cryptocurrency with the masses."

The difference is YC has a long string of non-crypto successes. So when they do invest in crypto, people are less suspicious of it than they would be some random person plugging their crypto project.

Coinbase fills a need created by the chaos of crypto, the very chaos that causes the problems people criticize it for, and it does so reigning in the BS and creating a safe space for the few useful (or at least innocent) things like speculative investing and exchange. It's not like a DAO where you're counting on someone to write a good Ethereum contract that won't be rules lawyered by someone to take all the money. At this point the only thing that distinguishes it from a real bank is it handles crypto. Even the USD is FDIC-insured!

Try again.

Re: A Love Letter to Geocities Sites

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Post by jszymborski »

brap wrote: post #67
_zetta wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Duuude!!! thanks!!! I read this when I was 10 or 11 and I haven't stop making web since then.

Now we all want to see the gif

Sadly, I think it was a partial false memory. There is indeed a section on making animated GIFs, but instead of a seal bouncing a ball, it's just a bouncing ball sans seal.

Here's a screenshot from the book (it's on Archive.org)

https://dl.sphericalcow.xyz/private/hn/0e66b5f993de9e96aaaee...

Re: A Love Letter to Geocities Sites

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Post by BrainVirus »

dfxm12 wrote: post #93
chasing wrote: post #5

This is amazing. I miss the days when the web truly felt like a vast tapestry of people energetically letting their freak flags fly. Pave paradise, put up... an algorithm to maximize engagement.

You think the Web still isn't full of people letting their freak flags fly? You can still see this on twitch, YT, tiktok, etc. Just like Geocities represents amateur or even naive web development/web design, there are the same types of people trying to create video content. Even Twitter (including the "weird Twitter" genre of tweets) and other social media sites are full of amateur commentators, writers, comedians, m…

TikTok to Geocities is what AstroTurf is to real grass.

Re: A Love Letter to Geocities Sites

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Post by sparker72678 »

BigTuna wrote: post #94

Any old heads remember using HoTMetaL to write HTML? It was literally just a glorified text editor that inserted tags for you. I eventually learned HTML well enough from it that it became faster to just write pages in Notepad.

Gosh, yea. There were a ton of these little editors that popped up around that time. I can't remember the name of hardly any.

Re: A Love Letter to Geocities Sites

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Post by chasing »

dfxm12 wrote: post #93
chasing wrote: post #5

This is amazing. I miss the days when the web truly felt like a vast tapestry of people energetically letting their freak flags fly. Pave paradise, put up... an algorithm to maximize engagement.

You think the Web still isn't full of people letting their freak flags fly? You can still see this on twitch, YT, tiktok, etc. Just like Geocities represents amateur or even naive web development/web design, there are the same types of people trying to create video content. Even Twitter (including the "weird Twitter" genre of tweets) and other social media sites are full of amateur commentators, writers, comedians, m…

Of course there's still a lot of freaky flag-flying happening. I just meant that now it feels like everyone's shouting in the same room — a room 1/3rd full of people trying to maximize the cash value of shouting and 1/3rd full of straight-up grifters. Whereas in the late-90s millennium fever it felt more like you were laying out the crazy foundation of some optimistic future.

Re: A Love Letter to Geocities Sites

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Post by rchaud »

dfxm12 wrote: post #93
chasing wrote: post #5

This is amazing. I miss the days when the web truly felt like a vast tapestry of people energetically letting their freak flags fly. Pave paradise, put up... an algorithm to maximize engagement.

You think the Web still isn't full of people letting their freak flags fly? You can still see this on twitch, YT, tiktok, etc. Just like Geocities represents amateur or even naive web development/web design, there are the same types of people trying to create video content. Even Twitter (including the "weird Twitter" genre of tweets) and other social media sites are full of amateur commentators, writers, comedians, m…

Sorry, but TikTok is not modern-day Geocities, not even a bit. The operative word is "City": Geocities let you browse individual "neighborhoods" of websites at your leisure. It stayed out of the way, giving you the satisfaction of discovering little weird nooks and crannies on your own time, just as you would by traveling to a real city. Website makers also weren't trying to go viral and be invited on to the Jimmy Kimmel show.

There is nothing organic about TikTok. You have to wade through a deluge of formulaic dance videos set to repetitive music clips for about an hour before the all-powerful algorithm determines that maybe you're not interested in that.

For a platform that probably has billions of videos (Geocities never did), discoverability outside of the algorithm is impossible, because the search functionality sucks.

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