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I once read a comment here on HN about SEO, and someone was suggesting to start by buying a domain name that is your first and last name. I thought it was cool, but didn't see how it could improve SEO. But I bought it anyway[1]. I had nothing to put on it for a while, so I started just working on my own design skills replicating Google.com. It just a fun thing I do for absolutely no benefits to others. Great way of l…
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I didn't think it was possible to fall in love with a website, but here I am. Nostalgia! I've been brainstorming ways to overhaul my personal site for a while now, and this is definitely the way I'll be going. Personal web pages used to mean something.
Upvoting and replying to your comment to say hell yeah!
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This is great! I love it! I've been looking for an 'uncool' space to create little, text based personal website and it seems to be perfect.
I kinda finished my personal space: https://hackernews.hypertext.town/~kuba I didn't touch any web development in at least 10 years so it was a lot of fun. I hope even more interesting towns will appear!
I regret to report though, but something is broken - nothing above the SUPERHOT videos section is clickable :(.
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This is great! I love it! I've been looking for an 'uncool' space to create little, text based personal website and it seems to be perfect.
I kinda finished my personal space: https://hackernews.hypertext.town/~kuba I didn't touch any web development in at least 10 years so it was a lot of fun. I hope even more interesting towns will appear!
Something a lot of HNers seem to forget is that people used to build websites just for kicks. You like DragonballZ? You make a DragonballZ page on Geocities just for the hell of it. No adsense, no Google Analytics, no search-engine optimization or newsletter or investor pitch... that part of the early web seems to really have faded, and it's a pity.
Here's a screen shot of a website I never finished from 2003. Frontpage, tables, 3 gifs, ms paint graphics... this site had the works: https://imgur.com/Lulenom
I once read a comment here on HN about SEO, and someone was suggesting to start by buying a domain name that is your first and last name. I thought it was cool, but didn't see how it could improve SEO. But I bought it anyway[1]. I had nothing to put on it for a while, so I started just working on my own design skills replicating Google.com. It just a fun thing I do for absolutely no benefits to others. Great way of l…