Remember when... A very long time ago, GeoCities ruled the "Web 1.0" as one of the most popular hosting services for personal websites. That service is now gone because Yahoo decided to kill it.

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With 90s nostalgia at full throttle, it’s no surprise to see the recent launch of NeoCities, a rebirth of the Dot Com-era web hosting platform Geocities, in all its flashy, neon, blinking, clip ...

Big apps trap attention with endless algorithmic feeds; they optimize for scrolling, not discovery. Neocities and VHSearch revive the indie web: static, handcrafted sites that invite wandering and ...

Remember using dialup in the 1990s? Back when the technology was new, the online world wasn’t overrun with corporations, and everyone was basically trying to figure out what the internet even was? If ...

When I first started exploring the internet in the late 90s, it was a different place than it is now. Wilder. Less regulated and corporatized. In those days, personal websites dominated; there was no ...

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