Neocities: Making the Web fun again
...my goal with NeoCities is not to turn it into a GeoCities parody site, though I don’t really care if people use it that way. The purpose of this project is not to inspire nostalgia. It’s to rebuild the platform for us to be able to be creative again. To have sites that we can do whatever we want with. This is not nostalgia speaking. We really did lose our platforms for creativity and rich self expression online, and I want to help bring them back.
None of the technology we have developed has obsoleted what made the old web magical. It did not take away the joy of creation. It’s still fun to make web pages, you can still share it with every internet user in the world 24/7. And when you don’t have to attach your real identity to everything you do, it still doesn’t matter how old you are, what you look like, or what your social class is. If you have a library card and a few hours, you can make a web site on NeoCities....
https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2013/05/28/making-the-web-fun-again.html
...my goal with NeoCities is not to turn it into a GeoCities parody site, though I don’t really care if people use it that way. The purpose of this project is not to inspire nostalgia. It’s to rebuild the platform for us to be able to be creative again. To have sites that we can do whatever we want with. This is not nostalgia speaking. We really did lose our platforms for creativity and rich self expression online, and I want to help bring them back.
None of the technology we have developed has obsoleted what made the old web magical. It did not take away the joy of creation. It’s still fun to make web pages, you can still share it with every internet user in the world 24/7. And when you don’t have to attach your real identity to everything you do, it still doesn’t matter how old you are, what you look like, or what your social class is. If you have a library card and a few hours, you can make a web site on NeoCities....
https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2013/05/28/making-the-web-fun-again.html
a library card?
ReplyDeleteDiana Studer Public-access computer. That is: you don't even need your own computer to operate a website.
ReplyDeleteThat would even work in Cape Town.
ReplyDeleteWill be checking this out! Thanks!
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