Post #1222742

2026-04-12 06:58 UTC

@mia aaaahhh. Mmm. True. Though one reason people were tired of MySpace was some of the garish customisation happening - facebook and twitter seemed so clean and simple - and that was the end of that. I think the likes of Neocities is great, but people have to discover it exists - by word of mouth I guess. Back in the day you'd get online with your ISP, and they'd give you a little tutorial to set up your provided email, newsgroup access and little bit of hosted webspace. That's gone too.

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@dahukanna@mastodon.social 2026-04-12 08:13

@sarajw @mia 2000-2005 for local small businesses in London, UK to control their computer & web destiny, installed windoze NT & 1. set up POP3+SMTP mailbox server+clients 2. setup local, staff restricted intranet webserver 3. FTP+CMS for local intranet & external websites. Since 2010 “SaaS-opolis” mainframe brainwash, computers are no longer “seen or used” as general purpose compute tool. Rather, only opinionated commercial endpoint for extracting money from “consumer” audience.

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@jill@social.jmenning.com 2026-04-12 12:52

@sarajw @mia For real. My first ISP was my college. I got a public web folder with FTP and Telnet access, and a dial-up number. I built my first web site using the editor that was built into my browser (Netscape Composer). It was right there - I didn't have to go looking for it. But, to be real, even then it was a pretty nerdy thing to do, to have a personal web site :) Most of my friends didn't.

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