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Post #696895

2026-03-17 12:09 UTC

Random shower thoughts: A talk called "The Modern Web Sucks! Let's Take Back the Web!" Discuss building small, personal sites. Discuss the old days when we had Angelfire, GeoCities, and other hosting services. Talk about NeoCities. Talk about BBSes, IRC, Gopher, FIDOnet. Talk about webrings. Show people how dead easy it is to set up any of these and how to do it even from small, portable devices. Whatcha all think?

Replies (10)

  • @manchicken@defcon.social 2026-03-17 12:13

    @lambdacalculus Absolutely! I think Neocities is a great project, too, and we should probably be hyping that shit a lot more than it is. I do think we should also make sure that we're clear that some of these protocols are great, but are mostly suited for rag-chewing rather than discussing your sensitive information. I'd love to participate in this.

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  • @sauc3@hachyderm.io 2026-03-17 12:17

    @lambdacalculus I am a big fan. I've got at least one blog on Neocities and have been considering getting another one going. I really like the small web movement. It reminds me of a better time in the history of the internet.

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  • @draken@masto.nyc 2026-03-17 12:47

    @lambdacalculus I need to update my neocities site. https://drakenblackknight.neocities.org/

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  • @mdhughes@appdot.net 2026-03-17 13:58

    @lambdacalculus Or the modern version, get a VPS, set up apache or nginx or something, stand up a minimal web site. It doesn't have to be that hard, most slightly technical people can do it if they're shown it's possible.

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  • @valentine@flickering.style 2026-03-17 14:05

    @lambdacalculus ๐Ÿ™Œโ€‹

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  • @jadedtwin@corteximplant.com 2026-03-17 14:37

    @lambdacalculus absolutely!

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  • @logomancer@soc.7thmagic.net 2026-03-17 18:09

    @lambdacalculus Not a bad idea. Iโ€™d also cover Gemini for completeness and to show that making good protocols is possible in the modern age.

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  • @cpm@spore.social 2026-03-17 18:49

    @lambdacalculus yes plz & thnk you

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  • @lambdacalculus Green lighting this one ๐ŸŸข ๐Ÿ‘

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  • @ltning@pleroma.anduin.net 2026-03-19 22:45

    @lambdacalculus It's exactly what I'm trying to cobble together for a conference I'll be attending in a few weeks. Thank you for confirming this is a valid idea :-D

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