Excluding, say, here or the fediverse more broadly.
There have been some nice corners of the internet that have somehow kept going along their way that I’ve enjoyed lurking around like some alien observer. They are the few spaces I dare not pop in and ask, out of fear it would somehow break things.
All the Chaos Computer Events are like a different dimension. You can leave your laptop somewhere unattended and the worst thing that may happen to it, is that someone plugs it in to charge.
I heard about CCC all the way in my UK university! Wish we had something that big in the UK. I remember beards, lots of beards!
When someone I know who I went to different schools together with invites me to their school (as someone who never liked my own).
who I went to different schools together with
This is one of the most confusing clauses I’ve ever read.
What does this mean?
Visiting a school that you yourself are not a student at by accompanying someone who is a student at that school. I think the “together” was not necessary in the strict sense.
I exactly remember that feeling and I haven’t been a student for 15 years now lol It’s indeed a parallel universe experience.
I phrased it in the form of an inside metajoke. Often a common dad joke is to name a celebrity and say “I knew Abe Lincoln, we went to different schools together”. It’s a fancy way of saying “I know them but that’s it”.
Shout-out to r/TESLore. I remember the exact moment I was hooked: Someone started her comment with the phrase: “We all know what the enatiomorph is, where it comes from, and how it’s formed, but…” and I’ve gleefully been indulging with those other weirdos ever since.
Offline, go to any jam band concert like dead & co, dopapod, the werks, or dark star orchestra or glitchy bass music concert like Mersiv, Tipper, detox unit, or 3AM. even better, go to a small music festival held on private land (no law enforcement)
I saw the barter system in action, folks just giving away Hallucinogens and pretty rocks, lots of sharing and hugs and general positivity. Even saw one of the homies having an impromptu magic the gathering match on a big flat rock next to a river. They both just happened to bring their decks to the festival.
NeoCities always feels like a portal to an older internet
Tell me more?
I see it allows you to create your own site. How is the hosting done? As in who pays?
How do you find other cool sites etc. I like the idea just not sure on all the deets.
Hosting is free for users, that much I know (had to chuck something on there for a thing in uni several years ago)
I’m guessing it’s a spin-off of the original GeoCities back in early 2000s which was also mainly for free site hosting.
This seems like where you can browse/search: https://neocities.org/browse
Its a free site builder, if you search there is an option to browse and a lot of sites have links to other sites and you can kind of get lost. I’m actually working on my own neocities right now.
https://clubnintendoarchives.neocities.org/
^Thats the first neocities site I found and that introduced me to the idea.
Neocities came up in another question I asked, and so I looked into it. They have a couple ways they handle funding, via donations or becoming a supporter and subscribing for a little each month.
You may have already looked this up by now, but for anyone else that comes across this and was wondering too, there ya go!
