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sundarurfriend · a year ago
There seems to be a resurgence of the little old Web of yore, with webrings and website banner icons here, and a lot of young people making videos about neocities and other simple web things. Gives me hope for the Internet - maybe the real Web 3 was a conscious step back into Web 1.0 all along, with a bit more visual nicety to it. The tech stack and capabilities of the sites may be wildly different now, but in some way this captures the essence of the feel of the old Web to me.
BriggyDwiggs42 · a year ago
I don’t want to be a downer but i just dont think the vast majority of the population is interested.

Edit: I know everyone is having lot of fun with the short replies, but I’m not saying these sites are bad because most won’t use them. I’m saying that this movement cannot constitute a transition into a new internet with only a tiny minority of the userbase ever being involved. It’s fine to do it anyway, but it won’t fix the problems with the current one or fully replace it, and I wish that it would. I was only responding to the parent comment that this resurgence may represent a step back into web 1.0.

Evidlo · a year ago
The vast majority wasn't interested before either. They just weren't as online.
natebc · a year ago
To be fair, they weren't back in the Web 1.0 days we all pine for either.
gspencley · a year ago
In order for anyone to be interested in something, you first need prospective "somethings" to exist. It's an old saying that 90% of everything produced is garbage. This applies to 90% of what is on social media, 90% of youtube videos, 90% of books and movies ... so 90% of the small web will certainly not be of any interest to most people. But there is a potential 10% that could help to renew interest in this style of website. We'll never know if it's never created.

And on a personal level ... I don't even care. I just like that people do things that they like. If people are building these websites for themselves and for no other reason than their own personal enjoyment, that's good enough for me.

throw_pm23 · a year ago
Avoiding what the vast majority is interested in has always been a decent strategy.
1vuio0pswjnm7 · a year ago
"I don't want to be a downer but I just don't think the vast majority of the population is interested."

I guess that's mean no advertising because the audience is to small. What a downer.

ghusto · a year ago
If the vast majority aren’t interested, that’s a sign of success. Remember, it’s when they came that everything went to shit.
hluska · a year ago
Who cares? The vast majority of the population doesn’t care about 90% of the jobs represented here.
User23 · a year ago
That’s fine. The vast majority of the population wasn’t interested in the Internet in the early ‘90s and that was fine too. Better in many ways. The signal to noise ratio was many orders of magnitude higher, and the average intelligence of users was observably higher too.

I have no interest whatsoever in the overwhelming majority of current things that consume the attention of the vast mediocrity that you call the vast majority. Their disinterest is a feature and opens up the possibility for lesser known and more interesting content.

globular-toast · a year ago
They never were.
gspencley · a year ago
All I want to know is who tf is Phil Fish and what are his campaign promises?

(if the moment passes, when I checked out the website multiple people had typed messages along the lines of "vote for phil fish")

dlbucci · a year ago
He's the game dev who made Fez, then famously decided to cancel Fez 2 after having some sort of break down (maybe over online abuse?). Not sure why we're voting for him though...
gspencley · a year ago
Thanks!
autoexec · a year ago
I thought I'd never heard of him before today, but it turns out he was in a netflix movie about indie games I saw once.

https://old.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1dolrr/e...

Reddit also says gamergate was upset because people who'd financially invested in his game company and/or were personal friends with him were also judges for the Independent Games Festival and he got an award from that. No idea if that's actually true though

justin_oaks · a year ago
When I showed up, someone was writing "Cthulhu 2024!" I think we know what Cthulhu's campaign promises are.

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runjake · a year ago
Super neat and fun. A good experiment of how people behave when they think they're anonymous.

Lots of NSFW, political, and other offensive text floating around the site. So if you're easily offended, perhaps skip it.

NoxiousPluK · a year ago
It was very very wholesome when I visited just now :)

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Bjorkbat · a year ago
Kind of thrown off by the Phil Fish comments.

Like, are we talking about the guy who made Fez? That Phil Fish? Is it 2012?

darknavi · a year ago
I was more thrown off by "WHO LICKS ASS ON THE FIRST DATE???".

But yeah, Phil Fish was part of a decent amount of drama post-Fez.

bigstrat2003 · a year ago
To be fair... who does do that? Seems weird.
nusl · a year ago
I like the strange little chat function. It's quite cute and something I haven't seen before.
miloignis · a year ago
Participating in a spontaneous reply-chain with others without coordination was a neat moment for me!
dobladov · a year ago
Figma, has the same functionality.
RankingMember · a year ago
Well that was fun for awhile until inevitably some anonymous coward started spamming racist nonsense
Slump · a year ago
Very cute and charming, random offensive content from anonymous users not withstanding. I was pleasantly surprised that zooming with the browser works relatively well to help make things a bit clearer and easier to rid. I had to squint pretty hard by default.
datadrivenangel · a year ago
This is wonderfully fun. Little moments of connection with people we'll never see again.