>megabytes of anime gif vomit and random prefab javascript widgets that'd bring a pc from the actual geocities era to its knees
>every site made by a monoculture of 14sheitthetadeltas with dni lists longer than the encyclopedia britannica and the same four or so media interests (vocaloid, deltarune, nintendo 3ds games, maybe serial experiments lain if you're lucky)
>all authenticity filtered through ironically larping some contrived y2k frutiger aero aesthetic that didn't even exist in any appreciable form in the 2000s-early 2010s
>little to no organizational hierarchy, massive walls of text everywhere about the creator's hyperfixations if the site isn't just a glorified linktree
>having to scroll through trigger warnings to get to the index page because the creator used the naughty fuck word somewhere in a blog post
>nobody hosting services like xmpp (everyone just uses discord instead because of course they do) or ftp, not even so much as a minecraft server
>people treating neocities/nekoweb more like myspace 2 than a proper web host, placing undue emphasis on comments and follows
>outright refusing to implement responsive css because mobile is le bad and le corporate
>poor accessibility, with most sites lacking image alt text and having garish colors and animations that could harm people with epilepsy or other neurological/sensory issues
>rss feeds are utterly nonexistent
where did the personal web revival go wrong? Are the societal conditions that produced the internet of the 90s just not there anymore?
>every site made by a monoculture of 14sheitthetadeltas with dni lists longer than the encyclopedia britannica and the same four or so media interests (vocaloid, deltarune, nintendo 3ds games, maybe serial experiments lain if you're lucky)
>all authenticity filtered through ironically larping some contrived y2k frutiger aero aesthetic that didn't even exist in any appreciable form in the 2000s-early 2010s
>little to no organizational hierarchy, massive walls of text everywhere about the creator's hyperfixations if the site isn't just a glorified linktree
>having to scroll through trigger warnings to get to the index page because the creator used the naughty fuck word somewhere in a blog post
>nobody hosting services like xmpp (everyone just uses discord instead because of course they do) or ftp, not even so much as a minecraft server
>people treating neocities/nekoweb more like myspace 2 than a proper web host, placing undue emphasis on comments and follows
>outright refusing to implement responsive css because mobile is le bad and le corporate
>poor accessibility, with most sites lacking image alt text and having garish colors and animations that could harm people with epilepsy or other neurological/sensory issues
>rss feeds are utterly nonexistent
where did the personal web revival go wrong? Are the societal conditions that produced the internet of the 90s just not there anymore?