My updated site retro-digital / old internet aesthetics.

🧠 אינטראקציות / interactive elements
🔌 אנימציות / animations
📡 הכל קורה בעמוד אחד / everything happens on one page
👉 http://nestechsoftware.neocities.org

#neocities #geocities #indieweb #אינטרנט_עצמאי #retroWeb #90sInternet #webArt #experimentalWeb #Fediverse #PersonalWeb #OldWeb
#RetroInternet
#CyberNostalgia #CreativeCoding #HTMLArt
#HandmadeWeb
#AltWeb #UndergroundWeb #InternetCulture
#PixelArt #RetroAesthetic #Y2K #90sAesthetic #oldternet #3Dart

😆 Ah, the #nostalgia of text-based browsers! This writer's love letter to #Lynx and #w3m is a trip down memory lane, where CSS is a four-letter word and *JavaScript* is a myth. 🚀 Spoiler: They don't matter, but hey, enjoy your pixelated, featureless web, grandpa! 🔍
https://cssence.com/2026/text-based-web-browsers/ #textbasedbrowsers #retroweb #pixelatedweb #HackerNews #ngated

The #UK Government's Department of #Transport website in 1997. 🖥️🌐🛣️🛤️

#RetroWeb #90sInternet #WebDesignHistory #InternetHistory #Year1997

Who remembers the #London #Transport website in 1996? 🚏🚌🚇⦵ 🖥️

"Best viewed in Netscape!" 😁

#RetroWeb #90sInternet #WebDesignHistory #InternetHistory #TfL

What ever happened to #VRML? Is anyone out there still playing around with it? 🤔

#RetroComputing #RetroWeb

Ah, "Project Gemini"—the hipster of the internet world, where interconnected text documents are the artisanal kombucha. 🍵✨ It's not about innovation; it's about crafting a digital nostalgia trip for those who are just too disrupted by the modern web. So grab your monocle and enjoy this lightweight retro web space that’s more "meh" than "wow." 🧐📜
https://geminiprotocol.net/ #ProjectGemini #DigitalNostalgia #RetroWeb #InterconnectedDocuments #HipsterInternet #KombuchaVibes #HackerNews #ngated

Pika, Bear Blog, or Micro Blog as a neat platform for conversation and connecting? #indieweb #retroweb #SmallWeb #blogging Any thoughts or experiences?

I like to maintain a list of cool #smallweb #retroweb ##indieweb #smolweb services on a links page at my photo blog. Any suggestions of nice community oriented services you've come across?

I’m late (20 years late) to the Vernacular Web article by Olia Lialina: https://art.teleportacia.org/observation/vernacular/

And part two (18 years ago): https://contemporary-home-computing.org/vernacular-web-2/

And part three (Prof. Dr. Style), from 15 years ago: https://contemporary-home-computing.org/prof-dr-style/

Better late than never. Remarkable to see these essays still intact, even if many of the hyperlinks are broken.

#WebDesign #RetroWeb

Fear of the personal

This sounds silly from someone having a personal blog, but I’m sometimes having a hard time writing personal things on my blog. How ironic, right? I think this fear stems from having written a mountain of incredibly cringey personal things in the first incarnations of my blog, having made very complicated social experiences in the past, and to some degree, from where I’m from.

I used to […]

https://chaosworks.org/2024/fear-of-the-personal/

One of my ongoing #RetroComputing projects is maintaining a vintage #RetroWeb / #GopherProtocol server based on OpenBSD 3.0.

Web (clear): http://geryon.n8fq.org
Web (modern SSL): https://geryon.n8fq.org
Web (vintage SSL): https://geryon.n8fq.org:30443
Gopher: gopher://geryon.n8fq.org

I decided to rename my #RetroWeb / #GopherProtocol server from lucifer.n8fq.org to geryon.n8fq.org, in keeping with my emerging theme of naming computers after Nethack characters.

I learned last night that @ross has a #Tildeverse website. Today I added a Friends section https://tilde.club/~artlung/ (I added @gregorlove.com and @vanderwal too) #IndieWeb #retroweb

Who else do I know from the world and Zooms with Tilde sites? https://indieweb.org/tilde

It's all very nostalgic indeed. I really miss how open and joyful was the early internet overall, especially after DSL adoption.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250731-a-journey-into-the-heart-of-the-forgotten-internet

#retroweb #internetarchive #internet #history #bbc

Wow. This site about color theory hasn't updated its design since the 90s. It even still has the original ad banners. #retro #90s #webdesign #retroweb

http://www.colorbasics.com/

The funniest instance of Wikipedia vandalism was on Sep 27, 2008, when someone edited a core template included numerous times on virtually every page on the site to include a happy birthday message to Avril Lavigne.

The message was added to the top of every single page on the site, overlapping a couple dozen times (hence why it looks a bit darker than the surrounding text). #retroweb

Fun fact, Nintendo keeps basically all of its old sites online even to this day, including even Flash content. Here's some screenshots I took just now on live sites, circa 2005/2006. Links in reply. #retroweb #retrogaming

• Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland
• Pokémon Trozei
• Animal Crossing: Wild World
• Game Boy Advance

Who remembers PokéCheck? Community run alternative to GTS (Global Trade Server), used for trading competitive and rare (event) Pokémon with built in legality and hack checks. Sadly it died off with Gen 6 because it couldn't be made to be compatible. Today you have to dig a little to find what little information about it remains. (Source in reply.) #retroweb #retrocomputing

Some Pokémon fansites from the 2000s/2010s. Links in reply.
Fun fact: all of these sites are still online and going strong. Psypokes even still has the exact same design.
#retroweb #retrocomputing

Zophar's Domain, 2000 vs 2022. #retrocomputing #retroweb