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user-inactivated  ·  3401 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The modern internet sucks: Bring back Geocities

People who would have used Geocities are using Tumblr now, where they don't have to write their own html. Its signal to noise ratio is infinitesimal and I don't have the patience to plow through it looking for the good parts myself, but I see enough links examples to know they're there.

It might be bad for the web that the people posting good weirdness on Tumblr aren't encouraged to become part of building it, but since we're determined to make the web a squeaky clean shopping mall it's probably not bad for them.





empty  ·  3401 days ago  ·  link  ·  

FWIW, tumblr DOES allow users to write their own HTML, and even javascript!