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The old internet shows signs of quietly coming back

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622 points ColinWright | 1 comments | 25 Jan 22 22:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.978s | source
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toto444 ◴[26 Jan 22 09:13 UTC] No.30083387[source]▶
How many of you mourning the old internet frequent neocities or have their own personal website ? I don't think the the answer is 'a lot'.

Everyone on HN complains about everything being turned into a business but everyone also wants to create their own start up and turn it into a unicorn.

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1. foxfluff ◴[26 Jan 22 10:57 UTC] No.30084006[source]▶
> How many of you mourning the old internet frequent neocities or have their own personal website ? I don't think the the answer is 'a lot'.

I don't, but I've been meaning to have one for a long time now. I even started and got a vps from hetzner but they blocked me. I can't really decide where or how I want to host it.

> Everyone on HN complains about everything being turned into a business but everyone also wants to create their own start up and turn it into a unicorn.

That's not true at all. Today I want creative communities and community-built software & hardware projects more than ever. I wouldn't mind having my own business that is beneficial to a community (same way e.g. how Olimex or Raspberry and PCB manufacturers are beneficial to people building open source hardware and don't have the means to fabricate circuit boards at home) but I don't think everything should be monetized and turned into business.