I was about to comment that “nothing is stopping you from making stuff like that today”, but then I remembered that I have enough hardware and bandwidth available to host an obscene amount of lightweight (by today’s standards) 90s sites and services, but I simply can’t be arsed designing anything meant for others to view.
You got me excited there for a minute. I thought you meant that people were making homepages and webrings and using forums and stopped using phones.
Time to find my Geocities password
Next best thing: https://neocities.org/
Xoom was so much better than geocities and I will die on that hill
I was about to comment that “nothing is stopping you from making stuff like that today”, but then I remembered that I have enough hardware and bandwidth available to host an obscene amount of lightweight (by today’s standards) 90s sites and services, but I simply can’t be arsed designing anything meant for others to view.
That’s actually all true too. There’s a webring and gopher revival. Along with a modern luddite movement sweeping college campuses.