Is there a way to have communication via personal websites. I miss being able to visit the many sites available when the web young and people were interesting.
I remember the rings. However is there a way to have a bit more functionality and be able to communicate via sites without cookie cutters platforms?
Maybe, but only if I can figure out what you are saying....
If I still rode trains, I’d be tired of being on platforms too.
Rings? Have you been hacked by someone in the subincontinent?
Techs?
You just dated yourself, big time.
Me, too, but I can see better from up here.
Hmmm...
I’m still trying to figure out how to get a fat-free chicken soup...
At 90, if I get a cold and need chicken soup, I’m in trouble with what my wife makes for me...
In first with.....
“Are you logged in?”
I remember the days of dial up Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) where only one person at a time could call into the BBS. If you got a busy signal, you’d have to keep trying until you got the modem tone.
I had a list of BBSs that I’d call up and read.
Wix, Weebly and WordPress are website builders that offer their services for free in addition to a subdomain.
They were the fun days. You can still do it. I had a few.
trfmf.com
Created it after google blog spot started removing new and some old posts I put-up.
I hear you about social platforms. For any given event, most everyone you follow will say the same thing, only different. That and it’s blurbs of text.
I think you mean Pings as opposed to rings. They’re still a thing with WordPress at least.
It’s hard to find decent website content if you’re a conservative because google has tweaked their algorithm to make sure we don’t show up.
Many of the free website/blog services have gone away.
One thing is SubStack. Good writers and a variety of subjects. One feature is “monetization”. Some people are fully monetized meaning you can’t see squat. Some people partially. Some people free.
Once you follow some people, you get decent suggestions for similar people to follow. Most writers also have their own suggestions. Writers also post to each other in the comments which is similar to pings.
Caveat. If you follow(subscribe) to someone, you have no choice but receive an email for every post they write. Follow 20, and that’s a lot of email. Only way to stop the emails is to unsubscribe.
I solved that by creating a subfolder called substack and creating a rule for my email accounts so that any email with “substack” in it goes there and doesn’t clog up my regular email.
Other than that, podcasts are the new thing.
I miss the Internet being composed mostly of information with a few ads, instead of mostly ads with a bit of information.
I liked and used Xanga. It was a great writer’s platform for folks who write short stories and essays and the like. Many people used it for FB like inanity but it was easy to not encounter any of them. The rise of FB killed it.
I absolutely know what you are looking for. I was longing for those days myself a couple months ago and went searching. What I found is pretty cool. There is a whole independent offgrid internet of it’s own where all the sites are minimal and self hosted just like the old days. It is an updated more modern version of the old “Gopher” protocol.
It is called Gemini space and uses a very secure encrypted peer to peer protocol called Gemini that is very cool and I am getting deeply involved. It is the Bomb. You can have blogs, image galleries, file sharing, Old school BBS boards, streaming music sites, etc. and about anything you want to create. It is not part of the HTTP-WWW protocol. It has it’s own custom URL address system.
It is fairly new, but it is designed to be retro with small simple sites just like the old days. There are several client (browser) options, and several self server options if you want to create your own. The best client is called “lagrange” and comes with the Gemini protocol preinstalled in it. Install Lagrange and you are in the network. I haven’t created a server “Capsule” as they call it yet. Working that direction now.
I’m glad people are posting these deep thought vanities.
I had thought about it myself the last couple of months.
If people are going to waste space I would rather look at this than the ukraine threads.
I don’t understand.