The Web
Gosh! The Web! what a varied topic. Did you know that you are reading this text on a website right now? many people on Neocities are passionate about the "old web", a nostalgic view of the internet between about 1995-2010, with some older and newer nostalgia between. Neocities itself is a play off of Yahoo's old Geocities, a service that allowed individuals to create their own static homepages. I had my own geocities website as a kid and it did not look half as good as the websites built on this old web nostalgia... though I remember being very fond of the sites that did look like those.
Anyway. As this is such a huge topic I've decided to divide it into three topics: Essays & Analysis, Web-Based Resources, and Web Building Resources.
Essays & Analysis
- Own Your Web: a mailing list about creating and maintaining your own web presence through your own website by Matthias Ott.
- Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media: an essay about social media and online spaces and how they keep being sold to corporate interests and used for political purposes as soon as they become real forums for human-to-human communication. Written in 2022 by Catherynne M. Valente
Web-Based Resources
- Curlie.org: A human-edited web directory that strives to be the largest on the web. Fun to browse and run by volunteers if you want to help the project.
- PeeloPaalu Link Directory: A link directory of interesting links in no particular order with many sites of retro/historical interest
Web Building Resources
- Neocities.org: a service for hosting static websites made with html and css, based off of the old GeoCities service. This website is hosted on neocities!
- Dreamwidth.org: A long-form blogging website based off of a LiveJournal fork with no advertisements and a permissive content policy. If you really can't be arsed to build your own website but want a home-base more stable than typical social media, I would recommend starting here.