There seems to be a resurgence of the little old Web of yore, with webrings and website banner icons here, and a lot of young people making videos about neocities and other simple web things. Gives me hope for the Internet - maybe the real Web 3 was a conscious step back into Web 1.0 all along, with a bit more visual nicety to it. The tech stack and capabilities of the sites may be wildly different now, but in some way this captures the essence of the feel of the old Web to me.
I don’t want to be a downer but i just dont think the vast majority of the population is interested.
Edit: I know everyone is having lot of fun with the short replies, but I’m not saying these sites are bad because most won’t use them. I’m saying that this movement cannot constitute a transition into a new internet with only a tiny minority of the userbase ever being involved. It’s fine to do it anyway, but it won’t fix the problems with the current one or fully replace it, and I wish that it would. I was only responding to the parent comment that this resurgence may represent a step back into web 1.0.
In order for anyone to be interested in something, you first need prospective "somethings" to exist. It's an old saying that 90% of everything produced is garbage. This applies to 90% of what is on social media, 90% of youtube videos, 90% of books and movies ... so 90% of the small web will certainly not be of any interest to most people. But there is a potential 10% that could help to renew interest in this style of website. We'll never know if it's never created.
And on a personal level ... I don't even care. I just like that people do things that they like. If people are building these websites for themselves and for no other reason than their own personal enjoyment, that's good enough for me.
The parent comment was talking about us consciously stepping back into web 1.0. I want that to happen, but I’m saying the majority won’t do that. It’s gonna look like isolated, small groups of people who already have some link to each other making these sites-a more creative discord server. I like that, but I’d personally love to see change that impacts on a wider scale, that actually changes people’s default.
That’s fine. The vast majority of the population wasn’t interested in the Internet in the early ‘90s and that was fine too. Better in many ways. The signal to noise ratio was many orders of magnitude higher, and the average intelligence of users was observably higher too.
I have no interest whatsoever in the overwhelming majority of current things that consume the attention of the vast mediocrity that you call the vast majority. Their disinterest is a feature and opens up the possibility for lesser known and more interesting content.
He's the game dev who made Fez, then famously decided to cancel Fez 2 after having some sort of break down (maybe over online abuse?). Not sure why we're voting for him though...
Very cute and charming, random offensive content from anonymous users not withstanding. I was pleasantly surprised that zooming with the browser works relatively well to help make things a bit clearer and easier to rid. I had to squint pretty hard by default.
There seems to be a resurgence of the little old Web of yore, with webrings and website banner icons here, and a lot of young people making videos about neocities and other simple web things. Gives me hope for the Internet - maybe the real Web 3 was a conscious step back into Web 1.0 all along, with a bit more visual nicety to it. The tech stack and capabilities of the sites may be wildly different now, but in some way this captures the essence of the feel of the old Web to me.
I don’t want to be a downer but i just dont think the vast majority of the population is interested.
Edit: I know everyone is having lot of fun with the short replies, but I’m not saying these sites are bad because most won’t use them. I’m saying that this movement cannot constitute a transition into a new internet with only a tiny minority of the userbase ever being involved. It’s fine to do it anyway, but it won’t fix the problems with the current one or fully replace it, and I wish that it would. I was only responding to the parent comment that this resurgence may represent a step back into web 1.0.
The vast majority wasn't interested before either. They just weren't as online.
To be fair, they weren't back in the Web 1.0 days we all pine for either.
In order for anyone to be interested in something, you first need prospective "somethings" to exist. It's an old saying that 90% of everything produced is garbage. This applies to 90% of what is on social media, 90% of youtube videos, 90% of books and movies ... so 90% of the small web will certainly not be of any interest to most people. But there is a potential 10% that could help to renew interest in this style of website. We'll never know if it's never created.
And on a personal level ... I don't even care. I just like that people do things that they like. If people are building these websites for themselves and for no other reason than their own personal enjoyment, that's good enough for me.
The parent comment was talking about us consciously stepping back into web 1.0. I want that to happen, but I’m saying the majority won’t do that. It’s gonna look like isolated, small groups of people who already have some link to each other making these sites-a more creative discord server. I like that, but I’d personally love to see change that impacts on a wider scale, that actually changes people’s default.
And that 90% is different for different people in my experience.
Avoiding what the vast majority is interested in has always been a decent strategy.
Wanting better for others is a basic human instinct, I think.
I thought so too until more recently when the people who don't think this way seem to have given a megaphone by the internet
They never were.
Who cares? The vast majority of the population doesn’t care about 90% of the jobs represented here.
That’s fine. The vast majority of the population wasn’t interested in the Internet in the early ‘90s and that was fine too. Better in many ways. The signal to noise ratio was many orders of magnitude higher, and the average intelligence of users was observably higher too.
I have no interest whatsoever in the overwhelming majority of current things that consume the attention of the vast mediocrity that you call the vast majority. Their disinterest is a feature and opens up the possibility for lesser known and more interesting content.
All I want to know is who tf is Phil Fish and what are his campaign promises?
(if the moment passes, when I checked out the website multiple people had typed messages along the lines of "vote for phil fish")
He's the game dev who made Fez, then famously decided to cancel Fez 2 after having some sort of break down (maybe over online abuse?). Not sure why we're voting for him though...
Thanks!
When I showed up, someone was writing "Cthulhu 2024!" I think we know what Cthulhu's campaign promises are.
Super neat and fun. A good experiment of how people behave when they think they're anonymous.
Lots of NSFW, political, and other offensive text floating around the site. So if you're easily offended, perhaps skip it.
It was very very wholesome when I visited just now :)
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Kind of thrown off by the Phil Fish comments.
Like, are we talking about the guy who made Fez? That Phil Fish? Is it 2012?
I was more thrown off by "WHO LICKS ASS ON THE FIRST DATE???".
But yeah, Phil Fish was part of a decent amount of drama post-Fez.
To be fair... who does do that? Seems weird.
A gentleman.
Very cute and charming, random offensive content from anonymous users not withstanding. I was pleasantly surprised that zooming with the browser works relatively well to help make things a bit clearer and easier to rid. I had to squint pretty hard by default.
I like the strange little chat function. It's quite cute and something I haven't seen before.
Participating in a spontaneous reply-chain with others without coordination was a neat moment for me!
Figma, has the same functionality.
Well that was fun for awhile until inevitably some anonymous coward started spamming racist nonsense
This is wonderfully fun. Little moments of connection with people we'll never see again.
Can’t type anything on iOS :(
Giving me strong The Palace chat vibes, didn't realize how much I missed that.
Went to the site and saw “Nigger” floating around. Anonymity emboldens people. I guess this is why moderation is always needed.
Asymptotically approaching vr chat
An ultimate peak into true humanity. Most are polite. Others just want to get a reaction to prove they can make people feel SOMETHING.
Really neat idea.
This is so charming
Cute and impressive but of course there's someone currently posting blatantly racist crap on it.
If you don't acknowledge them, they'll get bored and move on. They're only looking for attention, so your best weapon is to not give it to them.
Definitely agree about it being cute/impressive. There's lots of clickables that further showcase things. Don't forget to explore!
i've learned to ignore that kind of things.
giving such people attention and calling that out often only gives them "positive feedback".
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this is great, well done to the author
Very cool, but should be bigger on desktop, it's hard to read
There's an expand button on the browser screen when you click on the laptop! So dope.
OH GOD, MY EYES.
While I'm sure this was fun to make, it's a nightmare to use.
OH GOD, MY EYES!!! [starry eyed emoji]
While I'm sure this was a nightmare to make, it's fun to use! \o/