Making the web fun again
summary
Neocities revives GeoCities: open sources the front end, launches a rails-backed host that file whitelisting stops from becoming a malware dump, and grows fast enough that phantomjs powers phantomjs screenshots for a browsable gallery. It adds an in-browser Ace editor, an activity feed, one-click ZIP backups archived by the Internet Archive, and pays about $100/month for liability insurance against subpoenas. Next step is IPFS federation to make sites persist and decentralized.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Intro
- 3:34Who made websites
- 10:27The Modern Web
- 13:29The Secret Sauce
- 20:56Resource Portals
- 23:05Persistence
- 26:12Make beautiful things
- 28:03Learning to code
- 28:43Screenshots
- 31:03Problems
- 35:58Next steps
- 36:43IPFS
- 37:53Next Project
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