an old thought and the new web
It’s early September, 2001 and there’s something new on the web - pop-under ads.
I’m sorry but when I hear Yahoo! or GeoCities, especially in the same sentence, my first thought is pop-under ads. They made me so angry back then, I created an initiative to take a stand against them.
The thing about the web is you can stake out a little place of your own - a place for expressing yourself (whatever that means to you) - a place you can call home - a place from which you might say your piece.
NeoCities is not ‘Yahoo! GeoCities’… it’s much better, thank you!
(edited for clarity, 03/25/25)
more than the doctor ordered
The meds I do every morning to manage my little collection of physical ailments don’t always do it for me. Sometimes, the pain goes far beyond what a few Tylenol (along with those other meds) can resolve. When I wake up feeling like total shit, I need something more powerful. Well, I tried something this morning after my usual meds and motherfucker, it worked!
Three songs in their entirety, one after the other was the magic formula I discovered this morning. Three songs. And I’m good now.
I started with Clive Murray’s Return to Gamut Street...
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Clive’s guitar playing reminds me a bit of David Gilmour, which led me to my second musical med, Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb....
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Then the third musical med smoothed it all out - Rich Woman by Robert Plant and Allison Krause with T-Bone Burnett on the guitar.
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In the words of Mr. James Brown, I feel good!
Thanks to the miracles of modern musical medicine.
simply.profound
It’s like we’ve all been given a 4 year prison sentence, without parole, for a crime we did not commit.
notes on an ageless web
(edited 02/12/25 for clarity)
Several recent guestbook posts at bulltown got my attention.
wowo cool site 😁
followed by
holy shit you're older than my dad
Hysterical laughter ensued!
In all seriousness, it reminded me that the web is ageless and those thoughts could only have been written by someone as extremely young as I am old. As it turns out, the words came from a 14-year-old.
We now follow each other at Neocities. She’s a nice person and her creativity is exactly the type of thing that made me wanna join Neocities in the first place.
so what does ‘ageless’ mean anyway?
Long ago in the age of Web 1.0, blogging, Geocities, Yahoo, and pop-under ads, I set out to make a point, creating the ageless project. Unfortunately, all that remains is a list of links to about 5 dozen kind people who supported the project, linking to it from their own blog or personal homepage - there once was a large directory of links (not only to supporters) organized by the authors’ ages - but link-checking (and fixing) took its toll…
When I first launched the project, many people wrote about it as if it was a directory of old peoples’ personal sites. Not at all - it was a directory of personal sites authored by people of all ages - from teenagers to people in their nineties. I truly believed back then as I do now, that the web brings us all together regardless of age (and gender, ethnicity, or sexual identity)!
With all that said, I have to admit I might very well be the oldest person in the Neocities community. Maybe not.
But I love it!
looming
political opinion (toggle)
the grand pay-to-play
happening in front of us
a train wreck looming
