Remember using dialup in the 1990s? Back when the technology was new, the online world wasn’t overrun with corporations, and everyone was basically trying to figure out what the internet even was? If you miss those days and you want to revisit an information superhighway where regular people created quirky online homes for themselves instead of just filling in text boxes on Twitter, rejoice: the old web lives on at Neocities.
Originally launched in 2013 as an effort to save the content on the defunct 1990s website hosting company GeoCities, Neocities has evolved into a network that hosts over 600,000 bespoke web sites created by humans in the old fashioned way: with HTML and Javascript.
Surfing in Neocities (“surfing the net” is what people used to call farting around on your computer) suggests an alternative reality where Web 1.0 never died.
Ironically, it seems that the sites are created by older people, but all by young people consciously choosing an outdated style to call back to a “simpler time” that they didn’t actually experience.
See https://lifehacker.com/relive-the-internet-of-the-90s-with-neocities-1850540482