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Kids these days will never experience every web page looking like this.
Kids these days are making neocities pages again
neocities is where it’s at.
I love that. The enthusiasm of someone who can write 15 pages about penguin migration or medieval catapults is infectious.
I saw one quite recently, I think it was from a client but I’m not 100% sure if it was not randomly
I also blame search engines. I type like “python file open parameters” and I really just want the official docs. They’re not even on the first page of DDG.
6 Reddit threads, a bunch of YouTube videos of people with shocked faces (why are they surprised?), an AI summary that may discuss something related to your query or may talk about ways to get a snake to open its mouth, several articles, pretty much anything except the reference manual.
I think the next underground social network should be called “car insurance.”
Nobody would ever find it through a search engine.
Fantastic
10 best python file open parameters
2026 best python file open parameters
You won’t believe how the sixth one will halt!
On my free trial of kagi the official docs are the very first result without any lenses or settings. I will be buying subscription soon because while not always but sometimes the results are better by a long shot over ddg and google for me.
I’ve heard good things about kagi, but $10/mo is pretty steep
Trust me, I thought the same, but its honestly almost life changing. Takes me right back to 2008 internet where I could find the shit I wanted. Very little seo and slop.
Kagi, mullvad, ublock origin with huge AI and ad blocklist waterfox (or Firefox) and private DNS are MUST HAVES to use the internet today.
Try the 5 dollar kagi first.
Hello, what do you mean when you say private dns?
Either mullvad DNS or nextdns.
Mullvad DNS is free for anyone to use. You can either change it within mullvad or in your network settings on your device or router. Pm me and I can help ya.
Basicakly results in less tracking and ads. Sometimes better network performance.
Lemming nerds correct if I’m wrong !
Oh that makes sense. Thanks. I was confused.
If you have a subscription to Windscribe, addy.io, or one of Kagi’s specials, you can get 3 months for free.
Most people have at least one subscription that they don’t use that they pay $10/mo or more for.
I’m an outlier I guess. I don’t think I have any subscriptions.
we’re on lemmy (or piefed, or whatever). Everyone here is outliers.
Google Kagi 
Yesterday, one of our new devs was struggling to get the page count of a word file in Python. I asked if he could just use an index from one of the existing libraries we’re using. He proceeded to search it on Bing and then waited for Copilot to generate slopcode at the top of the page. Shocked in horror, I asked, “Are you sure these are real functions?” He responded, I’m sure I can just copy and paste what I need. FML
Here you go: https://kagi.com/smallweb/
A curated list of small sites and blogs
Cloudhiker.net is another Stumbleupon clone. also Ye Olde Blogroll for finding indie blogs (blogroll.org)
Micro.blog and bearblog.dev both have great communities too, if you’re into blogging.
and finally: check out neocities, it’s like geocities but still alive
my website is very basic (just a simple static website with text and sometimes images) - but at least i have a handmade 88x31 button :3
I love me a good 88x31 button, well done
We love Neocities! :3
This person would love to spend an afternoon on neocities and see what people are still creating
TELL ME YOUR FIVE FAVOURITE GREENDAY SONGS
Seems to be mostly blogs, not old school Geocities-style sites.
I never liked web 3.0 for the most part. Bloated trash. I’ll take pure HTML any day.
I feel safer when I see IFrames and text and blue (sometimes purple) links than I do when everything’s shiny and slidey and has an alpha of less than 255.
We need lines and boxes to not get lost. Structure it is
Bring back the blinking text and MIDI music honestly.
Reading blogs on bearblog.dev is an amazing experience. No algorithms, no discourse, no AI slop (I mean, hopefully 😬) and a majorly decreased amount of depressing world news.
I was just talking about this today with my wife’s family. We bought a whole house water filter from water filters of america and part of the reason we trusted them was their website. It looks like it is straight out of the early 2000s. We figured if they were scummy then they would put more effort into there site.
