To be fair: Neocities may as well be a social-media esque platform in the sense that its a hub for a bunch of people's content, but the difference is that it seems to be heavily unregulated and it promotes user freedom more than anything. Its a very traditional "web portal" in the same vain as something like Newgrounds, and its incredibly nostalgic for someone like me since I got into the internet around the tail end of that period.
So glad people are finally starting about neocities. Even if you don’t make a website it’s fun to explore other peoples sites as well. My only issue is Neocities is kinda the only one doing this, so if neocities gets taken down for whatever reason we’re kinda screwed.
Although more frequently used for actually professional stuff rather than personal sites, there are Github Pages which are pretty good. Could also go even more independent and host your own website. But of course that's gonna cost money (edit: apparently the video mentions all three, so maybe we should pay more attention >.
I kinda love that things are actually getting boring, I.e. websites, movies, tv shows, art, architecture, etc. because it means we are nearing a resurgence of great things to be made :)
i am just clicking and reading and amazed at the sheer personality that every website has I now understand the term "internet surfing", cause it feels like a wave of new information every time I click anything, and i love it
what a great video to add to my "use neocities please" playlist, a private playlist made to try and convince me specifically to use neocities, i hope it'll work someday
I want to use neocities soooo bad but im just too lazy and don't really have time to learn html, making custom designs, and draw full body ocs one by one I want to make a site for my oc, but yeah 😭
I hope we can eventually overtake the corporate web and have everyone use indie sites and other community run things. Also the term for running a website on a home pc is called self hosting, all you really need to do is install something like ubuntu server onto a pc you found in an ewaste center, setup html, and port forward it. Not really that expensive and you know that no one will ever be able to take down your site.
TLDR : horrible idea as good as this sounds hypothetically in reality this is a terrible idea. malicious people already abuse mass social media to spew hatespeech, misinformation, general public unrest. if nothing were moderated, yet the internet were equally as accessible as it is in current day, itd be chaos. imagine the worst things comprehend able that could be posted online. the internet would be crawling with that in every corner due to lack of moderation. ESPECIALLY with the existence and free use of AI. this would be an incoming disaster.
I have multiple for different levels of importance. The Bucket for watching it whenever, Watch Later for having it get in my recommended again, And Just Watch It Already You fool for doing it soon (very relatively)
amazing niche channel???? wasn't ever part of geocities or similar as a kid cause I was too afraid to show anything lmfao but i think this is the final push i need to make a little website to host my little sketches :3
It's quite easy and at the same time, as hard as you want it to be!! As a programmer i can tell you the following tip: If you are looking for tutorials i recommend you to NOT watch those of the like " *python web tutorial with the latest web framework* ". The only thing you REALLY need to make a website in neocities (so, a static website) is just HTML, CSS, and Javascript. It's been almost a month since your comment so maybe I'm not helping a lot xD but I hope others can see this too
man whos this FUNKe clone that just appeared in my recommended? btw thats a really high honor where i come from it means that you can create a kickass video essay and add cool af animations to it
Such a fantastic video! 🤩 The animations are absolutely stunning, and the music is just awesome I love how the video really captures the spirit of the old web, with its quirky charm and sense of exploration. 🕸 It's a great reminder that the internet doesn't have to be all about big tech and algorithms - there's still a vibrant community of folks building their own little corners of the digital world. 🌍
Truly amazing isn't it. I am totally not Scratch cat. I'm TomorrowMaybeBetter. Anyways, you guy's should donate to Scratch. It would really help me- I mean it would really help the Scratch team!
I actually really like this, as an indie dev myself I wanna make the internet cool again, also I liked the song in the video, felt nice to find a channel more goofy than serious
Heck yeah, Neocities is so fun ^c^ I've been trying to center my own internet creations over there and I've been having a blast personalising it, to the point that I've not really uploaded much of my creations there lol And oh my gosh the animations you made for the video are adorable as heck :3
I applaud you for having a music number, you did good! This is a great video! I’ve been meaning to do something indie web related for a long time now. I’ve used strawpage and have been interested in neocities for so long now. One day I’ll relearn what I was taught in my web classes.
Seriously I'm not the type of person to be too impressed by a youtube video considering how well "predictable" they've become but man this video was truly IMPRESSIVE, changed my brain chemistry. First finally somebody you helped me find a solution to the endless boredom i felt as a creative person in the modern web. Second everything about the video is stunning, the animations, the MUSIC i felt like i was watching a 2014 animation skit video and i am LOVING it, keep up with the good work
Man, thank you for intruding me to this stuff, time to spend way to long looking through it! also please add the mouse glitter from your personal site too green hoodie cat it would make me very happy
@@DrakonBlake i had replied to this but it looks like it never posted. But yeah FOSS is Free Open Source Software. Ive actually started writing it as F/OSS since not all open source is free. But id never heard of the company FOSS
When i saw this video i thought it was from someone with over 100k subscribers at the least. But no, you are extremely talented and funny, you deserve more than this.
legitimately thank you for showing me this. I was going to do an art blog this year, but then the whole Machine Learning thing happened. I'd be down for doing it in 2025 on a Newcities page.
Neocities! Love that site a bunch, I even made a personal one for my channel :D Granted, my site's a general thing for linking socials and the music I create but I think the end result looks cozy and fun :) On another note, I also like the presentation, animation, and overarching story of this video, it's really charming and playful while still relating to the video's subject :D
I learned web dev & design in college, I was interested in it, but the only options I had outside of super expensive hosting sites was non-existent. So glad to see more options for creative sites coming up in popularity again!
was it an artistic decision to not sing your lungs out, or were you whispering out of a lack of confidence/concern of losing your vocal chords? because i totally get the latter, i tried recording a song at probably half the length of what you sang, and i wss really stubborn about getting all the takes right, but also i was stubborn and didn't wanna whisper any of it out. left my voice hoarse after the fact lmaooo
Omg. Thank you sooo much for this video!!!!!!!! I've never got into most social media stuff (I only use this and discord,) and I've always loved the idea of 2000's style internet. Thanks for the advice X3
this is actually amazing like scrolled through just the random ones on the front page and clicked around immediately found a music artist i fell in love with like what???
I've been looking for something like this for so long! I'm so excited to start building a website to showcase my music!!!! I always felt soooo limited by the other website builders, for example Weebly (what I have used in the past). But this feel sooo artistic and personal and customizable. I'm so excited to learn how to make my own!!! Thank you for this video, so many amazing resources here and I'm saving your vid for my future reference! Love the animations you made!
Another sad aspect of how stremlined sites/social media has become is that more and more people have troubble navigating any site that isnt within the cookie cutter. Like even site styles from 8 or 10 years ago are "so bad" they are "unusable" to them. ): Anyways! Lovely video didnt know about that site making place. I think i know what im going to do twomorrow!
3:30 do not recommend this on twitter, the harder i tried to mass block and not recommend and more, the more it tried showing me EXACTLY that content, or even worse. The only thing that somewhat helped was just completely not interacting in any way, and eventuallyi just left twitter completely
you mentioned github as an alternative service for these kinda websites - personally i'd also suggest codeberg! it's more of a FOSS-friendly alternative to github since, reminder: microsoft owns github. there's been a small movement dedicated to stop using github in favor for more actually open-ended services. they have their own static site service (codeberg pages) and allow bringing everything from a github repository onto a codeberg repository. you could even make it so the same repo is on both services incase one goes under! that, and github uses the IO domain for its github pages sites, but you have to remember that the IO domain is actually supposed to be entirely wiped off of the internet in a few years (in other words they're killing it off), which means every github pages site that doesn't use a custom non-IO domain will actually just stop working in a few years (so a LOT of link rot). so i've always preferred codeberg in that case
5:44 .. Welcome to the club in advance. Anyways, very nicely put together video. And speaking of personal websites, I have my own website that I'm working on that I'm hosting on Neocities, although, I will probably switch it over to my server (quite literally just a Lenovo mini-tower from early 2016 that my grandmother gave to me after she got an HP mini-tower) once I have the ability to buy my own domain name.
I'm so tired of the constant whining about how good the internet used to be and how crappy it is now, and I'm so happy that finally someone is spreading the word about how to start doing at least something. I might even try some of the sources that are listed. +the song is really cute :) I also think it would be worth mentioning the existence of many forums. They may not be as free as having your own website or whatever, but they're still a great alternative to today's social media. I have accounts on a few forums (mostly dedicated to tech stuff) and it's proven incredibly useful in cases where you have a question or just want to exchange some info with others on a topic you both love. For the same reason, reddit annoys me the least out of all modern social media
It wasn't always this way. Websites from 20 years ago varied between adorable Geocities pages to information overload newsletter sites to metalheart-ish works of art like this: ua-cam.com/video/N-2sKZjawq4/v-deo.html . I wanna bring THAT back.
i love how when you mentioned finding inspiration i was like "Oooh i like the deltarune website stuff" and then you immediately mentioned spamton sweepstakes XD
1:35 Jokes on you, I have been locked in to the gameplay. >:) I hardly have much distractions! Though yeah it's a good video, Neocities was a great start for me personally and getting premium was also great to get me into my own Domain. Which now I have moved on from Neocities and setup my own Webserver through a VPS service that was like 50 cents more but gives me 400gb of SSD storage instead of 50 GB that neocities had. Hell, it's actually kickstarting me to get into developing web stuff but in that classic internet way.
oh my god.. this was genuinely so enlightening, the modern internet is so depressing and i've dreamed of old style communities like this, but i never thought such innocence was still untouched.. thank you so much, your creativity is profound as well, please keep doing you. thank you ❤❤
At the very least, youtube isin't completely soulless. The fact that i found this video in my recommendations at all tells us that there's still some hope left, but alas, you still make a good point.
14:44 Yeah that -totally- happened to my old computer too, turns out they don't like it when you're propelled out of them at a high speed. Who knew! You'd think HARDware would be more durable than that but whatever. 🙄
"very focused on free privacy-focused internet, full of artists and programmers, everyone who's probably pro piracy, and half the people making these websites probably use linux." Why did you call me out like that :sob:
I've been meaning to make a Neocities site, and this really makes me want to finally get on that lol. Also your OC is super cute, and the animation is neat. Great video!
we like thinking of it as tho sites are like gardens! it might seem daunting to try, or like u have no idea what it would even mean to try "making a garden," but u can slowly try planting things and teaching urself how to grow stuff a little bit at a time. maybe sometimes u visit someone else's garden and get some seeds from their plants, or vice versa. as u learn, u end up making a garden, and it's uniquely yours, arranged how u want and growing whatever plants u thought would be neat! and ppl can come see ur garden and tell that u put a lot of care into it! and then going by this logic squarespace is giant acres-wide monoculture soybean fields
Hey thanks, really good video! Ive been wondering for a while now, if there were any GOOD websites out there. I'm so tired of corporate websites. I'm going to look into everything you mentioned/suggested, I'll even try to make my own website, why not :) (Also, I love the song animation lol)
The problem is, though that people posting stuff online would prefer it to get seen, cause otherwise they wouldn't be posting it. And if you want it to get seen, you go where people are(Twitter, UA-cam, TikTok, etc.) Just like this video, which isn't hosted on your neocities page. This creates a feedback loop that allows large social networks retain their users.
wow this video is amazing, it has lore and everything!!! really convinces me to try making a website and i already have a cool idea after thinking about it (no idea if itd be optimised or not lol) and maybe ill actually get round to it instead of procrastinating like everything else i do thats creative :3 anyway you deserve my sub 🙏
While I heard that "The old internet was better" argument 1000 times, I never really thought of the fact we use like 5 sites now.
To be fair: Neocities may as well be a social-media esque platform in the sense that its a hub for a bunch of people's content, but the difference is that it seems to be heavily unregulated and it promotes user freedom more than anything. Its a very traditional "web portal" in the same vain as something like Newgrounds, and its incredibly nostalgic for someone like me since I got into the internet around the tail end of that period.
I use like 20, what are you talking about
@@ZoofyZoofstill not a lot compared to the past, plus the majority of people only use fewer than you
@@cedartree2222 Where statistics? You can't just claim the majority of people don't use around 10-15 websites without evidence.
@@ZoofyZoofAs a majority of people, I use 4 websites on an alternating daily cycle.
So glad people are finally starting about neocities. Even if you don’t make a website it’s fun to explore other peoples sites as well. My only issue is Neocities is kinda the only one doing this, so if neocities gets taken down for whatever reason we’re kinda screwed.
Nekoweb
@ never heard of that one, gonna check it out
Although more frequently used for actually professional stuff rather than personal sites, there are Github Pages which are pretty good. Could also go even more independent and host your own website. But of course that's gonna cost money (edit: apparently the video mentions all three, so maybe we should pay more attention >.
Starsubculture too, though that came out more recently
there's straw.page i think
I kinda love that things are actually getting boring, I.e. websites, movies, tv shows, art, architecture, etc. because it means we are nearing a resurgence of great things to be made :)
THIS !!! 💖💖💖
wow
That better be real.
IKR, gives me more faith in myself and what I’m going to make in the future :D
@@JSSMVCJR2.1if it’s not real than so is the Great Depression.
i am just clicking and reading and amazed at the sheer personality that every website has
I now understand the term "internet surfing", cause it feels like a wave of new information every time I click anything, and i love it
ohhh thaat's where itbcomes from?!
It’s just so cool how personal every site feels!
Fuck web3 , we goin web:3
Screw web 3
I am using web
colon thwee!!!
:3
i aint going web furry, im going html and flash.
:3
what a great video to add to my "use neocities please" playlist, a private playlist made to try and convince me specifically to use neocities, i hope it'll work someday
dang... i want that playlist too
Make that public now!
pls make it public i need it!!!
I want to use neocities soooo bad but im just too lazy and don't really have time to learn html, making custom designs, and draw full body ocs one by one
I want to make a site for my oc, but yeah 😭
I N E E D
a medibag
Internet just reminded me to finish my neocities site
Someone’s ACTUALLY talking about Neocities? Neat.
Shadok also talked about it, in a video about bringing the old internet back
And I've seen someone else, usually restricted to Degrassi stuff, do so as well. They ain't special.
I suppose. I haven’t really seen stuff myself, though. Just cool to see someone talking about it.
add a chrome policy to keep mv2
the policy exists so school districts wont get pissed off when their spyware extensions dont work
1 umm what
2 honestly sounds fair
OMG FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE NOTICED
mv2?
@@Pepo..manifest v2 which is what makes ublock work
if anyone wonders, they're talking about "Manifest V2"
I hope we can eventually overtake the corporate web and have everyone use indie sites and other community run things. Also the term for running a website on a home pc is called self hosting, all you really need to do is install something like ubuntu server onto a pc you found in an ewaste center, setup html, and port forward it. Not really that expensive and you know that no one will ever be able to take down your site.
Sadly there are so many auto crawlers and stuff:
I think the safest/best option is making a mesh/lora based web and have a truly free internet
TLDR : horrible idea
as good as this sounds hypothetically in reality this is a terrible idea. malicious people already abuse mass social media to spew hatespeech, misinformation, general public unrest. if nothing were moderated, yet the internet were equally as accessible as it is in current day, itd be chaos. imagine the worst things comprehend able that could be posted online. the internet would be crawling with that in every corner due to lack of moderation.
ESPECIALLY with the existence and free use of AI. this would be an incoming disaster.
Nah I'm not gonna sit on 200 websites
@@sonicloverlol2 so you prefer 10 websites that use 100x more resources than they should
@@da_pwo still better that sitting on 200 different ones
I remember when “save for later” existed, I think
erm.. bottom right below the youtube player, the three dots "save to playlist" o.o
Oh no, I'm not the only one with multiple Watch Later lists am I... painfully relatable.
Mine hit 5000 videos, which is the maximum, so I now have to split it into multiple playlists :(
I have multiple for different levels of importance.
The Bucket for watching it whenever, Watch Later for having it get in my recommended again,
And Just Watch It Already You fool for doing it soon (very relatively)
@@polandman07 put it on shuffle and remember to remove a video after youve watched it
just an idea
Neoctites introduced to me a guy crapping on youtube and i never thought how funny he made his website
Was that the one with the shooter endorsement?
That person seems.. interesting..
amazing niche channel???? wasn't ever part of geocities or similar as a kid cause I was too afraid to show anything lmfao but i think this is the final push i need to make a little website to host my little sketches :3
:3
do it!! hope it's doin well for ya :3c
got a neocities account recently! i cant wait to learn how to make a website :D
It's quite easy and at the same time, as hard as you want it to be!!
As a programmer i can tell you the following tip:
If you are looking for tutorials i recommend you to NOT watch those of the like " *python web tutorial with the latest web framework* ".
The only thing you REALLY need to make a website in neocities (so, a static website) is just
HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
It's been almost a month since your comment so maybe I'm not helping a lot xD but I hope others can see this too
I've been obsessed with web-surfing for years and I'm glad more people are now intrested in it!!
that song in the middle was a post-cringe masterpiece (high compliment from us)
oh my gosh your channel has lore?? amazing
very good video thank you
The hell?
post-cringe sounds like the sickest 2000s to 2010s era internet nostalgia based music genre, also doubles as a silly cringe posting pun lol
As someone who painstakingly made their own website for their art, it's really great to see more people talk about Neocities these days!
the animations are getting better and better with every video oh myd gosh... cool little song too
man whos this FUNKe clone that just appeared in my recommended?
btw thats a really high honor where i come from it means that you can create a kickass video essay and add cool af animations to it
Such a fantastic video! 🤩 The animations are absolutely stunning, and the music is just awesome
I love how the video really captures the spirit of the old web, with its quirky charm and sense of exploration. 🕸 It's a great reminder that the internet doesn't have to be all about big tech and algorithms - there's still a vibrant community of folks building their own little corners of the digital world. 🌍
YOU USE SCRATCH???? Wow.... It is an HONOR.
Also I made my own website on neocities but gave up on it after 5 weeks
use gandi ide, fixes all residing issues with the editor, only stripping away unneeded social options
I use Java, Python and C#.
I have used Blueprints, GDscript, Roblox's Lua, C#, and more currently making a storm chasing game on Unity
Truly amazing isn't it. I am totally not Scratch cat. I'm TomorrowMaybeBetter. Anyways, you guy's should donate to Scratch. It would really help me- I mean it would really help the Scratch team!
I actually really like this, as an indie dev myself I wanna make the internet cool again, also I liked the song in the video, felt nice to find a channel more goofy than serious
A youtuber named luvstarkei made her own website and a website to share other websites for other youtubers and content creators.
She inspired me to make my own website. I think most people can agree that web 2.0 kinda sucks.
yooo a luanti ytberrrr
this is unexpected
i thought like wait what is that the guy who makes minetest lets plays???
what's yr website?
every mention neocities gets i gain a little bit more vitality
the shadow gameplay in the background is sick as hell and ur animated segments are really charming and cool!!!
Heck yeah, Neocities is so fun ^c^
I've been trying to center my own internet creations over there and I've been having a blast personalising it, to the point that I've not really uploaded much of my creations there lol
And oh my gosh the animations you made for the video are adorable as heck :3
Also, Did you know that you can have your @ in bluesky be your Neocities site?
I did that hehe
1:56 i was waiting for a picture of the unabomber to pop up 😭
On a smaller scale
Strawpage is really fun to fiddle around with as well!!!
Real!!!
real!! i actually have one that im working on if you wanna see
@@kolpkiiOOOH NICE >:D
@@nuclearpancake3683 yeah! if you wanna see my strawpage it’s called “kolpwip”!
The animation here is neat, and I'm happy that more people are talking about the personal web revival.
clicked this vid because I saw the neocities logo, keep fighting the good fight capn
I applaud you for having a music number, you did good! This is a great video! I’ve been meaning to do something indie web related for a long time now. I’ve used strawpage and have been interested in neocities for so long now. One day I’ll relearn what I was taught in my web classes.
Seriously I'm not the type of person to be too impressed by a youtube video considering how well "predictable" they've become but man this video was truly IMPRESSIVE, changed my brain chemistry. First finally somebody you helped me find a solution to the endless boredom i felt as a creative person in the modern web. Second everything about the video is stunning, the animations, the MUSIC i felt like i was watching a 2014 animation skit video and i am LOVING it, keep up with the good work
as someone that literally finished updating my self-hosted personal website yesterday, THE ALGORITHM KNOWS OH SHIT OH FUCK
OMG GOOD JOB??????? 💅✨
p.s. your site looks SO COOL
@thenonfurry THANK YOU AAAA
Man, thank you for intruding me to this stuff, time to spend way to long looking through it!
also please add the mouse glitter from your personal site too green hoodie cat it would make me very happy
FOSS and self hosting (+neocities) are huge components of the solarpunk future im working towards. Thanks for good coverage of neocities
I assume FOSS stands for Free and Open Source Software here?
Because it’s also the name of a company
@DrakonBlake yes, im referring to free open source software. Uve never heard of the company named FOSS, sorry
@@DrakonBlake i had replied to this but it looks like it never posted. But yeah FOSS is Free Open Source Software. Ive actually started writing it as F/OSS since not all open source is free. But id never heard of the company FOSS
@@MossCoveredBonez I didn’t know it was a company either until I looked up “FOSS”
2:59 this is what happens when you dont get an update for 7 years
When i saw this video i thought it was from someone with over 100k subscribers at the least. But no, you are extremely talented and funny, you deserve more than this.
legitimately thank you for showing me this. I was going to do an art blog this year, but then the whole Machine Learning thing happened. I'd be down for doing it in 2025 on a Newcities page.
I certaintly didn't expect a musical in the middle of the vid but it was surely apreciated
Neocities! Love that site a bunch, I even made a personal one for my channel :D Granted, my site's a general thing for linking socials and the music I create but I think the end result looks cozy and fun :)
On another note, I also like the presentation, animation, and overarching story of this video, it's really charming and playful while still relating to the video's subject :D
I learned web dev & design in college, I was interested in it, but the only options I had outside of super expensive hosting sites was non-existent. So glad to see more options for creative sites coming up in popularity again!
felt like there was a lot of opportunity to show off some cool homepages instead of vg gameplay
was it an artistic decision to not sing your lungs out, or were you whispering out of a lack of confidence/concern of losing your vocal chords?
because i totally get the latter, i tried recording a song at probably half the length of what you sang, and i wss really stubborn about getting all the takes right, but also i was stubborn and didn't wanna whisper any of it out. left my voice hoarse after the fact lmaooo
I adore the vocal performance here, it's so strange and inhuman in a way that feels so Right and Wonderfil. I adore it!!!
It's really emotional and I love it.
Omg. Thank you sooo much for this video!!!!!!!! I've never got into most social media stuff (I only use this and discord,) and I've always loved the idea of 2000's style internet. Thanks for the advice X3
1:09 if you're a furry, it's definitely both.
But nothing is cooler than the internet besides shadow the hedgehog
this is actually amazing like scrolled through just the random ones on the front page and clicked around immediately found a music artist i fell in love with
like what???
I've been looking for something like this for so long! I'm so excited to start building a website to showcase my music!!!! I always felt soooo limited by the other website builders, for example Weebly (what I have used in the past). But this feel sooo artistic and personal and customizable. I'm so excited to learn how to make my own!!! Thank you for this video, so many amazing resources here and I'm saving your vid for my future reference! Love the animations you made!
Another sad aspect of how stremlined sites/social media has become is that more and more people have troubble navigating any site that isnt within the cookie cutter. Like even site styles from 8 or 10 years ago are "so bad" they are "unusable" to them.
):
Anyways! Lovely video didnt know about that site making place. I think i know what im going to do twomorrow!
You’re the type of youtuber that I procrastinate on watching your new videos because they end too fast. :’>
i love the quality of this videooooo from art to sound design, just everything has such a charm
3:30 do not recommend this on twitter, the harder i tried to mass block and not recommend and more, the more it tried showing me EXACTLY that content, or even worse. The only thing that somewhat helped was just completely not interacting in any way, and eventuallyi just left twitter completely
Anger is the most engaging emotion & Twitter knows it. That's why it gets monitised. That's why I eat beans out of a can.
I'm gonna go onto there and make a sleek modern website instead
Can't wait to see it.
you mentioned github as an alternative service for these kinda websites - personally i'd also suggest codeberg! it's more of a FOSS-friendly alternative to github since, reminder: microsoft owns github. there's been a small movement dedicated to stop using github in favor for more actually open-ended services. they have their own static site service (codeberg pages) and allow bringing everything from a github repository onto a codeberg repository. you could even make it so the same repo is on both services incase one goes under!
that, and github uses the IO domain for its github pages sites, but you have to remember that the IO domain is actually supposed to be entirely wiped off of the internet in a few years (in other words they're killing it off), which means every github pages site that doesn't use a custom non-IO domain will actually just stop working in a few years (so a LOT of link rot). so i've always preferred codeberg in that case
FOSS glows in the damn dark, wouldn't trust that
@@Nuniixo you wouldn't trust sparkling water
i watched this video all the way through without a break until 7:29
"eugh" is the most accurate reaction to the word "internet"
the quality on this video is insane homie keep up the good work
this editing is really refreshing. i like when it goes off the deep end occasionally
genuinely laughed when you mentioned licky cats still being everywhere on scratch. I saw two of them today in the wild
5:44 .. Welcome to the club in advance.
Anyways, very nicely put together video. And speaking of personal websites, I have my own website that I'm working on that I'm hosting on Neocities, although, I will probably switch it over to my server (quite literally just a Lenovo mini-tower from early 2016 that my grandmother gave to me after she got an HP mini-tower) once I have the ability to buy my own domain name.
the song and animations are so cute and endearing! I LOVE EM! :D
I love your song in the middle, super sweet! You’ve put a lot of effort into this, it’s amazing
This is one of the most charming channels I've seen in a long time
yeah it's pretty neat
too bad most sites are currently hidden from view with no chance of ever not being hidden
I miss when the search page actually showed every website so much man
Whoaaa… that segment with the library search engine was so cool
I'm so tired of the constant whining about how good the internet used to be and how crappy it is now, and I'm so happy that finally someone is spreading the word about how to start doing at least something. I might even try some of the sources that are listed. +the song is really cute :)
I also think it would be worth mentioning the existence of many forums. They may not be as free as having your own website or whatever, but they're still a great alternative to today's social media. I have accounts on a few forums (mostly dedicated to tech stuff) and it's proven incredibly useful in cases where you have a question or just want to exchange some info with others on a topic you both love. For the same reason, reddit annoys me the least out of all modern social media
a hate comment >:(
a hate replie!!1111 >>>>=((
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@v-14415 a well intended defense that feeds trolls!!!11!
@@v-14415A hate thread >=C
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this video was wack and i love it.
i did not know i needed me some green hoodie cat but now i need more.
im so glad people are finally talking about neocities
EDIT: 14:55 I HAVE THAT EXACT WHEATLY KEYCHAIN BUT THE KEYCHAIN BIT BROKE OFF LOL
1:12 Oh hey it's the Xorg logo minus the swirl
Oh wow someone else sees it
Jesus this is a deep cut 💀
It wasn't always this way. Websites from 20 years ago varied between adorable Geocities pages to information overload newsletter sites to metalheart-ish works of art like this: ua-cam.com/video/N-2sKZjawq4/v-deo.html . I wanna bring THAT back.
i love how when you mentioned finding inspiration i was like "Oooh i like the deltarune website stuff" and then you immediately mentioned spamton sweepstakes XD
I grew up on the 90s internet. It was definitely a lot more fun, and I'm so happy to see new generations trying to revive that feeling.
1:35
Jokes on you, I have been locked in to the gameplay. >:)
I hardly have much distractions!
Though yeah it's a good video, Neocities was a great start for me personally and getting premium was also great to get me into my own Domain. Which now I have moved on from Neocities and setup my own Webserver through a VPS service that was like 50 cents more but gives me 400gb of SSD storage instead of 50 GB that neocities had.
Hell, it's actually kickstarting me to get into developing web stuff but in that classic internet way.
oh my god.. this was genuinely so enlightening, the modern internet is so depressing and i've dreamed of old style communities like this, but i never thought such innocence was still untouched.. thank you so much, your creativity is profound as well, please keep doing you. thank you ❤❤
4:29 counter point, I don’t wanna buy an entire course for my website that probably won’t get any traction.
Based
The idea isn't to buy an entire course, but to google "html tutorial" and get the basics in like a half-hour
Just Google it
counter point, you cant buy a course and instantly get lots of traction
I've been getting myself into petsites like flight rising and the like, they really capture the kind of community the old web fostered
At the very least, youtube isin't completely soulless. The fact that i found this video in my recommendations at all tells us that there's still some hope left, but alas, you still make a good point.
14:44 Yeah that -totally- happened to my old computer too, turns out they don't like it when you're propelled out of them at a high speed. Who knew! You'd think HARDware would be more durable than that but whatever. 🙄
15:46 RAAAAAHHHH I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT THE VID IS NOT GOOD RAAAHHHHH
"very focused on free privacy-focused internet, full of artists and programmers, everyone who's probably pro piracy, and half the people making these websites probably use linux." Why did you call me out like that :sob:
It was inevitable.
I've been meaning to make a Neocities site, and this really makes me want to finally get on that lol. Also your OC is super cute, and the animation is neat. Great video!
wow thank you!! i used neocities in the past but i kinda forgot about it lmao you put me back on the neocities grind!!
why do you only have 3,99k subscribers wth? most underrated channel i saw this year
bro.... this is so underrated!!!! what the hell!!!!
6:35 HOLY MENTAL FLASHBANG, I USED TO USE SCRATCH SOO MUCH AS A SOCIAL MEDIA LMAOO
thanks for inspiring me pal, i'm in the tutorial of the neocities website, i hope i get the hang of it and start enjoying making my website
I've been on both neocities and spacehey for a little more than a year. Really neat stuff!
Thanks for showing up on my timeline when I needed you! Subscribed for the unique style, omw to neocities!
we like thinking of it as tho sites are like gardens! it might seem daunting to try, or like u have no idea what it would even mean to try "making a garden," but u can slowly try planting things and teaching urself how to grow stuff a little bit at a time. maybe sometimes u visit someone else's garden and get some seeds from their plants, or vice versa. as u learn, u end up making a garden, and it's uniquely yours, arranged how u want and growing whatever plants u thought would be neat! and ppl can come see ur garden and tell that u put a lot of care into it!
and then going by this logic squarespace is giant acres-wide monoculture soybean fields
Hey thanks, really good video! Ive been wondering for a while now, if there were any GOOD websites out there. I'm so tired of corporate websites.
I'm going to look into everything you mentioned/suggested, I'll even try to make my own website, why not :)
(Also, I love the song animation lol)
I just thought about how they could've escaped an unending amounts of fees, which is sick I guess.
But this is literally the internet in the internet.
The problem is, though that people posting stuff online would prefer it to get seen, cause otherwise they wouldn't be posting it. And if you want it to get seen, you go where people are(Twitter, UA-cam, TikTok, etc.) Just like this video, which isn't hosted on your neocities page.
This creates a feedback loop that allows large social networks retain their users.
wow there's an insanely high amount of effort put into this, this is wonderful :)
Remind me to come back here when I'm not laying in bed doom scrolling on my phone instead of sleeping.
wow this video is amazing, it has lore and everything!!!
really convinces me to try making a website and i already have a cool idea after thinking about it (no idea if itd be optimised or not lol) and maybe ill actually get round to it instead of procrastinating like everything else i do thats creative :3
anyway you deserve my sub 🙏
i love that more ppl are talking about this kinda stuff !! thank you so much for sharing ((':
Whoh.. randomly came across this video and I’m blown away w your editing. This is so cool-
what are the odds YT reccomends me this as I made a blogspot account