#indieweb 2024-03-16
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Loqi The 1990s was a decade that saw the invention and growth of the web, dominated by independent websites, as well as nascent silos like Geocities, with a particular brightly colored aesthetic that would come to define the era like under construction graphics, dancing animals, site counters, ornate backgrounds, and guest books https://indieweb.org/1990s
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redblobgames I still have my 1990s website but … it doesn't have any dancing animals or under construction bars etc
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gRegor Here's some if you need them https://gifcities.org/?q=construction :D
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# [Joe_Crawford] I have my 1990s sites. Relocated from http://geocities.com/SoHo/* and http://home.earthlink.net/~* … might add my links to the 1990s page.
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# [Al_Abut] Heyo! Happy Friday night, indienerds.
# [Al_Abut] Just having a beer and catching up here on chat
# [Al_Abut] @alex++ love your blog post about blog posts! Super meta but honestly much-needed for me to break out of a rut. I’ve had a bunch of long form drafts reach the almost complete stage and struggled for ideas for short fun ones.
# [Al_Abut] @btrem++ ooo, supertinyicons looks really useful, thanks for that resource. It’s impressively extensive and clearly a labor of love.
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doubleloop hello
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# [contact898] [Al_Abut] aw thanks!
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[tantek] feels good to post about something you've figured out so it's not stuck in your head, and other people can use it and build or improve upon it. like once you've posted about it, there's no more worrying about what if you forget to tell someone. you can let it go. curious if anyone has similar (or different!) feelings when you post about something you've (recently) figured out.
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# [contact898] I do! And it also makes it easy to answer frequent questions. A lot of my writing is just there for me to link to a post instead of explaining the same thing over and over again
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# hello1 hello friends
# hello1 i have learned so much in the short 30 minutes i have found this community lol
# hello1 i feel like mind is just truly being blown right now on so many levels
# hello1 techncially yes, but ill be real - it nothing special, haha
# hello1 or to be real real, honestly, feeling a bit intimiated after these past 40 minutes haha
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# [contact898] nothing needs to be special!
# [contact898] some of us just have a landing page with a contact section :)
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# hello1 alright im leaving this here so yall know im not a wierd robot rando but dont judge me haha, https://nancyferranti.com/
# hello1 for some context, I just became a digital arts teacher (like literally three weeks ago, haha) but like come from the world of audio/ radio/ all things sound, so just not really a digital artist in like the traditional visual arts sense of that word most people think of
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capjamesg My blog is https://jamesg.blog.
# hello1 so slightly feel like i been failing them not like being able to give them kind of the inspiration i feel like they deserve - but i got to say, this has a been a game changer
# Loqi 💬 Join the #indieweb discussion via the web, Slack, IRC, or Discord clients now with additional channels for dev, wordpress, and meta specific chat! https://indieweb.org/Discuss
# hello1 damn thank you guys, really appreciaet how nice you all are and also all teh sites
# hello1 i feel like its just the kind of digital realness i feared id not see again since i kind of tapped out online a few years back just too tired of like the overhlming amount of "content" online haha
# hello1 ^ seeing your site that is, haha. and thank you! I do love comedy
# hello1 no totally - i feel like i have so many frikken like unfinished twine websites and like obsidian projects I just been a bit too like adhd and all over the place with to eve rjust post, but now seeing this im so reinvigorated
# hello1 i wanted to make a like a little interactie fun website for the kids for the syllabus (which is even how i landed here in the frist place lmao) but like i gotta take the advice myself you know
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# hello1 okay, I actualy do have a question id love some advice on
# hello1 i like what's erally been stopping me (and I know this sounds dumb) is just theres so many options of like what to use that i feel like paralyzed in just chooseing like one/ a few for the time and going with it
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[KevinMarks] Have you seen https://downpour.games/ - that could be a fun way to do a twine alike with phones for digital arts students
# hello1 oh damn no, love this - we literall just did digital portrait colllages today wish I saw that before -- thank you!
# [KevinMarks] One of the encouraging things at the moment is that there are a range of new tools to make web things outside the silos.
# hello1 honestly almost too many haha, if I could take a screen shot of the amount of tabs i have open right now you would be apalled haha
# hello1 but all of them are so viable i cant shut them haha
# hello1 although i really love what you guys said about "make what you need" - its somethigng i forget all the time, and making me remeber whats important
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# [contact898] yeah my general recommendation is to get the first you find and then change when you know what your actual needs are
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# opadougie hey all! welcome to 'me'
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# [David_Peach] hi there
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[jeremycherfas] Hello1 let me agree with everyone that your site looks good and is fun. Also nice to see another podcast/radio person here. Have you stopped audio work?
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# Loqi ok, I added "https://www.netcraft.com/blog/cloudflare-loses-22-of-its-domains-in-freenom-tk-shutdown/" to the "See Also" section of /free-domain-names https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=94187&oldid=83904
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[qubyte] Phew. Finally got a post out about IndieWebCamp Brighton 2024. Definitely a case of _this’ll have to do_ though. I always struggle with structure once I get above one paragraph. 😅 https://qubyte.codes/blog/indiewebcamp-brighton-2024
# Loqi [indienews] New post: "Happy 25th birthday to the "backbone of my internet", RSS feeds" https://bacardi55.io/2024/03/16/happy-25th-birthday-to-the-backbone-of-my-internet-rss-feeds/