Post AbRgHM947VaMo8w0Ku by oluOnline@social.gfsc.studio
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 (DIR) Post #AbRgHKykSNjrBr6FcG by oluOnline@social.gfsc.studio
       2023-11-03T22:19:44Z
       
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       Do I know anyone who used geocities when it was running? Or who uses neocities now? Or both? 😯🤯
       
 (DIR) Post #AbRgHM947VaMo8w0Ku by oluOnline@social.gfsc.studio
       2023-11-03T23:00:15Z
       
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       Sorry for the similar questions to everyone, I'll add them here:On geocities:- Did you find much community on there? - How did you find learning web stuff/using the site to upload stuff? - Was it your first web dev experience? On neocities: What drew you to it? Do you have much community on it?
       
 (DIR) Post #AbRgHMr1U4kP0TV6qu by oluOnline@social.gfsc.studio
       2023-11-03T23:09:46Z
       
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       I have loads of questions because I'm researching for blogs and videos about what we can learn and what we shouldn't repeat from the early web.I have a lot of questions around:- the hosting landscape; was it mostly uni or geocities?- anyone who made games early; i know only a little about the experience of making flash games- how the hell any of you found anything before google? Someone said there were ads and i refuse to believe you were solely typing in urls from bits of paper?
       
 (DIR) Post #AbRgHNfMSv0tWb3JJY by elilla@transmom.love
       2023-11-03T23:40:04Z
       
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       @oluOnline  * late 90s Yahoo had a manually curated directory of the Internet and for a while, it was good. at least for mainstream topics. * when the Directory couldn't hold the weight of the Internet anymore, it was the age of the web search engines.  Lycos, Altavista, Infoseek, Yahoo Search, Ask Jeeves and many others. they were all terrible, full of banner ads, popups, pop*unders*—the web 1.0's equivalent of today's Javascrip spyware bloat—and they openly allowed companies to secretly pay for ad placement. it was common to jump from search engine to search engine looking for a real hit thru thinly veiled ads. I used to use Metasearch which would search a whole bunch of engines all at once and look for common results; the process took a good while. * (when Google appeared everybody immediately abandoned everything else and rushed to it, not because of the strength of the algorithm at first, but because it had a policy of 1) no banner ads, and 2) paid search results must be marked.  that made all the difference.) * a lot of websites we found via surfing; you would read an anime shrine on Geocities, and it would link to shrines to other animes, or other pages of the same author etc. you would get a lot from word of mouth too—"girl I found this cross stitch homepage that's just amazing, you have to check it"—or you would navigate the Usenet hierarchy to find a topic you want and ask for recommendations, or thru webrings (later, blogrolls), or in a mailing list or IRC room, or you'd buy a gaming magazine and it would recommend you sites.  the bookmarks function of web browsers was a **lot** more important than it is today. * there's also the, you know, the IRL. for things that we now do in Wikipedia, I used to go to a library and look through the card catalog.
       
 (DIR) Post #AbRgHP3rHKCdqrWO8W by oluOnline@social.gfsc.studio
       2023-11-03T23:10:48Z
       
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       I ran out of characters, someone mentioned altavista in a discord i am in on search engines, and a different person mentioned kali.net games wise, i have too much to look up in a good way!