Do marquees not scroll anymore?
Very, very nice.
Check internic.net landing page. Not changed in decades. You don't need to be so desperate for change.
On internic.net I was only able to find one link that linked to internic.net, and that was in big bold letters at the top.
- Site makes use of HTML5 and modern JS. Why bemoan modern frameworks and then use modern, bloated elements?
- Why is there a completely modern register/sign in section in the middle of the home page? Why do young people think every website used to have a marquee? Why does it look like a facsimile of a borderless Windows 95 window? Why the emojis everywhere? Why is there a text shadow effect done with CSS when the 90s way would be to use an image of the text with the effect already replied, with ALT text for text browsers? So many odd design decisions.
- Long content moderation policy talking about how the site is for "Marxist, Communist, Anarchist, Feminist, Postcolonial, Abolitionist, Racial Justice, Queer, Hacker, and Pirate cultures." and how things the site owner doesn't like will be removed.
- The about page looks written with ChatGPT. "That's it. No webpack. No npm install. No 'building for production.', Just HTML. Just vibes." It then goes on to say that they only have "Passwordless authentication (because it's 2025, not 1995)"
This looks to be yet another project fawning over a time and place that the creator didn't experience or have any significant understanding of whatsoever. It's one thing to look at the past with rose tinted glasses, it's another to have a completely fictionalized view of a past you have no knowledge of and then build a service around it.
It is intended to provide easy hosting, which many people need, and to encourage people to work on their own computer, rather than use web based tools, so it will have upload/validation, etc, but never editing or change your html in any way.
Sounds like a laudable service hope it helps people in the way you describe.
It looks to me this service is proposing hosting like it is the 90's, not building a web page exactly like it is the 90's with just a wee bit of retro clues.
The same way a Mazda Miata gave you the feeling of driving a british roadster of the 60's while having much more modern internals,comfort, reliability and fuel economy.
I absolutely LOVE that detail!!
Feels like we’re back again with vibe-coding, app builders, v0, bolt, lovable, all of it. The AI infra even feels familiar. End users getting back the kind of control we had in the public_html days via cPanel shared-hosting, VPS era. And for backend, it’s Supabase or Neon / Postgres now instead of phpMyAdmin and MySQL.
Full circle~
https://public.monster/~dmytri/
Paraphrased: I'm so old my age is negative in Unix time.
Gosh, now I look, it's ten years old in December. It's a pub. Where you talk about crappy old Landrovers and their ailments.
It's also an oldschool forum, and although I'm not really a fan of forums I'd far rather see those back over endless Discourse/Discord/reddit/facebook etc. Host it yourself on a VPS that costs a tenner. Own all your own data. If a couple hundred a year to run it is too much, ask your friends to chip in.
Take the Internet back.
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baubino•2mo ago