A Love Letter to Geocities Sites • Hacker News Board

Re: A Love Letter to Geocities Sites

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 8:10 PM UTC

throwawaycities wrote: post #82

Kye wrote: post #65

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Amazing: you've used a thread about one of the freest, least commercial eras of the web to plug some cryptocurrency/web3 bullshit and admit you took over one of the most memorable trademarks of that era to do it.

Free? You must have missed the part of the era where big tech purchased geocities for >$3B and killed it over the objections of users & deleted it from the Internet save for efforts of some like the Internet Archive (I hope you donate to them). Also must have missed the part about giving the IP to a community to govern. You did manage to confirm the unusual disdain of all things decentralized in web3.

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Re: A Love Letter to Geocities Sites

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Post by Kye » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 8:14 PM UTC

civilized wrote: post #100

baisq wrote: post #75

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This comment needs to be accompanied by a soyjak.

Sorry, what was that? I have a job and a wife and kids so I'm not always up on the latest internet memes.

It's one of a set of image macros people with no personality use to express their feelings on something. Like an emoji, but it signals the user is insufferable and hangs out with equally obnoxious people. Often paired with that frog that was so abused by twits that the comic's creator killed the character off.

Re: A Love Letter to Geocities Sites

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Post by civilized » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 9:04 PM UTC

Kye wrote: post #112

civilized wrote: post #100

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Sorry, what was that? I have a job and a wife and kids so I'm not always up on the latest internet memes.

It's one of a set of image macros people with no personality use to express their feelings on something. Like an emoji, but it signals the user is insufferable and hangs out with equally obnoxious people. Often paired with that frog that was so abused by twits that the comic's creator killed the character off.

Pepe is still a beautiful soul if you ask me. He didn't deserve all that awfulness that happened in his name.

Re: A Love Letter to Geocities Sites

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Post by tjr225 » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 11:51 PM UTC

Ma8ee wrote: post #29

tjr225 wrote: post #12

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You have to admit that the internet was more fun when it was enthusiasts expressing themselves, though. That’s the point of the post.

Aren’t places like TikTok full of enthusiasts actively expressing themselves?

TikTok is filled popularity enthusiasts. That is their only concern: winning the algorithm lottery. It is a completely different environment than the web prior to 2.0. I... would hope you would know this?

Re: A Love Letter to Geocities Sites

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Post by throwawaycities » Thu, Aug 04, 2022, 2:37 PM UTC

Kye wrote: post #103

throwawaycities wrote: post #98

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> 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 ne…

>Try again

I don’t need to try again, I own the GeoCities trademark and IP.

I’m really not sure what you are on about in terms of your hate for crypto & DAOs but love for Coinbase, whatever it is, your suspicion isn’t a reflection on me and what I’m doing with GeoCities, it’s a reflection of yourself. Good luck with all that.

They say you haven’t made it until you have haters…so thanks for spending your time and energy confirming that I’ve arrived.

Re: A Love Letter to Geocities Sites

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Post by Ma8ee » Fri, Aug 05, 2022, 9:07 AM UTC

tjr225 wrote: post #114

Ma8ee wrote: post #29

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Aren’t places like TikTok full of enthusiasts actively expressing themselves?

TikTok is filled popularity enthusiasts. That is their only concern: winning the algorithm lottery. It is a completely different environment than the web prior to 2.0. I... would hope you would know this?

I’m sure you know the motivation of every TikToker. And in the old days, no one tried to promote their website or find viewers? I guess the reason for web rings and why every little page had a view counter had nothing to do with wanting to be seen?

Or maybe your chauvinism make you think that showing of some technical prowess (because HTML with a bit of ecma script was really hard), is for some reason more valuable than dancing, singing, crafts or stupid jokes?