Today I learned about the “Indie Web”, a sort of web revival of the early internet days when everyone made personal websites and linked to each other rather than using the handful of big corporate sites.
People seem to be either self-hosting their websites or using a hosting service like “neocities”. The result appears pretty authentic to the late 90s/early 00s: a wide range of polish, very niche and specific interests, page visit counters, guest books, chat rooms, random little games, etc.
It’s tempting to get into. I figure that this might be something that would appeal to a lot of people on the fediverse too, so I thought I’d share. Here are some random pics of people’s websites:
Ah, the old internet, when you’d get 25 MB of web space with your hosting account. At some point in time you could get a .tk domain for free, suddenly everyone had one. Plenty of the old pages didn’t even have css, but used HTML tables to format the site.
Reminded me of the old free
ml.orgSLDs which were all the rage for a brief moment. RIP Monolith.