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Same, taught myself HTML over a summer in high school. Literally went to a library and printed out a tutorial I found on the Internet.
I will say though, if you haven't heard of it, there's a small movement to get back to more organic web content. There's the Fediverse for social media that isn't algorithmically-weighted. There's NeoCities for web pages. There's Mojeek and Marginalia for search. (Marginalia is all non-commercial, so its search index is interesting.)
There's still a lot of good out there.
OMG Love it. Thanks
Both the neocities and https://marginalia-search.com/ were very helpful.
I would love to hear more about this organic movement. If you ever want to do a regular post on it, i feel a lot here might respond.
It would be really good if we could have our neocities attached to our name or something....remember when everyone had a sig with 15 useful links. i forgot that
A good place to start is free and open source software. I made a video on it in April on my YT channel, and really spent that whole month talking about free alternatives to popular subscription services like Spotify and Netflix.
Here's one of those videos. If you learn something new, I'd appreciate a like to help with the algorithm, but that's totally up to you.
Have a great day!
Neocities I just checked it out and omg it feels like 2005 in the best way. Thank you.
Check out wiby.me for old-school stuff too. Clicking on 'surprise me...' is my favorite way to "surf the web" in modern times.
wow thank you! I absolutely LOVE wiby.me and I had no idea it existed. I've just been clicking on surprise me over and over all day. it's great. reminds me of old webrings. easily my new favourite site/search engine.
wow thanks for these sites! I knew of neocities but never really spent time looking at the various sites, i'm actually starting to build one now. also Marginalia is great. saved all three to my startpage.
Hey, you're welcome. If you're interested I also did a full breakdown of the Fediverse on my YT channel earlier this year.