let's create a crowd-sourced effort to migrate archived geocities sites to neocities.
Neocities: Free, modern Geocities reboot
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#12Hi! I started Neocities. I read HN regularly. Neocities was actually launched and bootstrapped on HN about 3 years ago, and donations from HN users bankrolled the first year of operating it. Things have been going really well, the site is growing and still sustains it's own existence through donations and supporter accounts. I still work on the site heavily. We're launching some big features soon (more space, Github…
Geocities was my first job out of school, at that time it took a small army of apache module c coders. Its awesome you're bringing back the concept, when Yahoo bought us out and then killed it they took out a huge part of the history of the early web.
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#13Kyle, thanks so much for all your hard work setting up Neocities! I think it's a wonderful thing you are doing.
Also, since we're talking about neocities, here, does anyone have any cool neocities sites they know of and want to share? Just post a reply to this comment, so folks who want to have other neocities discussions can easily collapse all the links at once.
Re: Neocities: Free, modern Geocities reboot
#14Hi! I started Neocities. I read HN regularly. Neocities was actually launched and bootstrapped on HN about 3 years ago, and donations from HN users bankrolled the first year of operating it. Things have been going really well, the site is growing and still sustains it's own existence through donations and supporter accounts. I still work on the site heavily. We're launching some big features soon (more space, Github…
Are you going to put a watermark in the bottom corner of user pages? :D That was the biggest controversy I remember back then!
Re: Neocities: Free, modern Geocities reboot
#15Hi! I started Neocities. I read HN regularly. Neocities was actually launched and bootstrapped on HN about 3 years ago, and donations from HN users bankrolled the first year of operating it. Things have been going really well, the site is growing and still sustains it's own existence through donations and supporter accounts. I still work on the site heavily. We're launching some big features soon (more space, Github…
I vaguely remember something about making the sites available through ipfs. What was that like and what came of it?
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#16Original discussion from Neocities' launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5918724 Personally, I don't have any reason to use Neocities but I am enormously happy that it exists. Geocities and Angelfire and all of those weird web sandboxes are where I first wrote code, and what led me to pursue software engineering as a career.
I taught myself HTML from a children's book(!) and Geocities hosted my first amateur website; I miss it still. I liked that there was an option for hand-coding your HTML rather than use a website builder, an option most free hosts don't now have. I am very grateful for Neocities!
Re: Neocities: Free, modern Geocities reboot
#17let's create a crowd-sourced effort to migrate archived geocities sites to neocities.
Easter egg time:
https://neocities.org/SiliconValley/Peaks/2790/
Works for any Geocities neighborhoods.
Jason Scott (@textfiles) gave me the idea when I was at the Internet Archive.
Re: Neocities: Free, modern Geocities reboot
#18Kyle, thanks so much for all your hard work setting up Neocities! I think it's a wonderful thing you are doing. Also, since we're talking about neocities, here, does anyone have any cool neocities sites they know of and want to share? Just post a reply to this comment, so folks who want to have other neocities discussions can easily collapse all the links at once.
This Serial Experiments Lain fan site gets passed around a lot. Be careful, it's a bit of a rabbit hole.
https://fauux.neocities.org/
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#19Hi! I started Neocities. I read HN regularly. Neocities was actually launched and bootstrapped on HN about 3 years ago, and donations from HN users bankrolled the first year of operating it. Things have been going really well, the site is growing and still sustains it's own existence through donations and supporter accounts. I still work on the site heavily. We're launching some big features soon (more space, Github…
I vaguely remember something about making the sites available through ipfs. What was that like and what came of it?
The sites are still all being archived through IPFS! The link of the latest archive was temporarily removed from the site profile, but it's coming back soon when we launch the new IPFS infrastructure (weeks not months). The first IPFS implementation was experimental, the next version is going to be pretty amazing. Stay tuned.
Using Neocities with IPFS has been really great for stress testing, as we have a lot of content and it links to itself in really weird ways. It's discovered some performance bottlenecks that the IPFS devs have been able to solve. The result is that the newest IPFS implementations are much, much better for massive datasets.
I'm a very strong believer in the distributed web. I think it's the future of static web content. People much smarter than me think it's the future of the dynamic web too, but I'm pretty single-focused on the static side of things right now.
Re: Neocities: Free, modern Geocities reboot
#20Hi! I started Neocities. I read HN regularly. Neocities was actually launched and bootstrapped on HN about 3 years ago, and donations from HN users bankrolled the first year of operating it. Things have been going really well, the site is growing and still sustains it's own existence through donations and supporter accounts. I still work on the site heavily. We're launching some big features soon (more space, Github…
Unrelated note. If anyone knows the Geocities founders I'd love to interview their first employee for our Employee 1 series.
Craig@YCombinator.com