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:
I can kill a whole afternoon on https://wiby.me/.
I’ll bet those interfaces absolutely explode in your face if you try to view them on mobile.
I’m down for it. If one more person parrots “mobile first!” at me this week, I’m going to slap them.
Mobile first!
Can someone help me figure out how to find these sites and maybe where I can start one of my own? Is there an app I can download on my computer that helps me find this stuff or whatever
Oh yes. Been seeing fun things on NeoCities.
I like the retro look of having early internet looking websites in widescreen.
Ah the good old days when XSS was a feature lmao
