Because it used to be the internet was fun and centered on making stuff yourself and sharing with others. Just like geocities allowed. But now a lot of it all seems like the people making things want to sell things and this has been done at the expense of having spaces for non profit seeking creativity. This is also why I made https://rainy-city.com. Sorry for the self promotion but I really want people to create more stuff like this. Just fun things to find on the internet.
Feel free to take it I would love if more people do. I found the original a long time ago somewhere on GitHub. Actually one thing I wanted to do and never got around to it was making it like one click deploy to GitHub pages so anyone can fork the repo and run a setup and build their own version of the page. Although now Claude code basically solves that problem. Lol.
Feel free to send me a link to your page when you make it and we can add it to the list of MySpace graduates (currently me and you).
As someone who actually wrote primitive websites by hand in those days, the pages these produce are FAR more elaborate than your average webpage in those days. And divs/css? Should be using tables or gasp, iframes. This feels more like a vaporwave style re-imagining of what things were like than the real deal.
I set up a server that limits bandwidth through it to max dialup speeds, with rate limit buckets per-IP:
https://dialup.moveything.com/. It has some gifs, progressive jpegs that are fun to watch load, and a mirror of xkcd.
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https://johnspace.xyz
Because it used to be the internet was fun and centered on making stuff yourself and sharing with others. Just like geocities allowed. But now a lot of it all seems like the people making things want to sell things and this has been done at the expense of having spaces for non profit seeking creativity. This is also why I made https://rainy-city.com. Sorry for the self promotion but I really want people to create more stuff like this. Just fun things to find on the internet.
Nice execution btw.
Feel free to send me a link to your page when you make it and we can add it to the list of MySpace graduates (currently me and you).
That's, er, definitely not where I expected this to be leading.
Although I guess the PyPI username was a hint.