Neocities is a modern hosting platform that recreates the feel of the early web, where personal websites built with raw HTML dominated the internet. The author reflects on the nostalgia of late-90s web culture, the charm of hand-crafted personal sites with autoplay music and quirky designs, and how Neocities captures that spirit. While the platform's dependence on a single host poses a risk, the author argues that impermanence has always been part of the web's nature. Neocities is praised as a refreshing antidote to today's centralized, corporatized internet.
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It's a throwback to the halcyon days of web designThe individual websites bleed charmThere's still a risk of it all disappearing, unfortunatelyBut that impermanence is part of the magic1 Comment
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