#Might as well just Web 1.0 it and just make a Neocities site at this point

[thegembeaststemple]

Very much on the fence on whether to keep using tumblr at this point, so here are some other places to find me, just in case

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[eggman-is-fat-mkay]

fun fact! none of the technology we had in the nineties has actually gone away, and there's plenty more new arrivals in the full-customization slash host-it-yourself online space!

Geocities might be long dead, but Neocities does much the same thing. There's a little web revival project inspired by the Web 1.0 way of doing things happening over there right now if you'd like to grab your code editor and jump in.

If you'd rather self-host, that's a bit more involved, and definitely not for the faint of heart, but it's also free. Setting up a Linux server from an old desktop you're not using anymore isn't that difficult. Nginx HTTP server is free and open source if you don't need any of the pro features like enterprise support (not as in software features, as in a support team of humans who will come fix stuff if it breaks) and load-balancing (which you need server level hardware to use anyways). Configuring it isn't fun, though, and neither is worrying about DDoS attacks, which is why I'd only recommend it if you need a feature Neocities doesn't have, like server-side processing (or you just want to learn how -- knowledge is never bad and it's an incredibly valuable skill!)

if you think the Web as a concept is just too big and bloated and full of tracking junk no matter who's running it, well, you've got options nowadays. I'd recommend giving the Gemini protocol a look -- there are plenty of great browsers for it already, and the protocol is so simple that with some programming skill and about an hour you can make your own, like I did. It's *incredibly* simple. No animations, no fancy page layouts, just long blocks of text, links, and maybe (if your Gemini browser is fancy enough to support them) images. Have a snoop around that site -- that's what all of geminispace looks like. It's pretty much exclusively long-form blog posts.