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| logo_caption = Penelope, the mascot of Neocities
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| caption = The Neocities Homepage, as of June 6, 2015
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| commercial = Yes
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| registration = Yes
| author = Kyle Drake
| author = Kyle Drake
| launch date = May 24, 2013
| launch_date = {{Start date and age|2013|6|28|mf=y}}
| programming_language = [[Ruby_(programming_language)|Ruby]]
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'''Neocities''' (a combination of the prefix ''Neo-'' and the website [[GeoCities]]) is a [[free web hosting service]]. Offering a small amount of storage space and no [[server-side scripting]], the service's expressed goal is to revive the support of "creativity and free expression" provided by GeoCities before its partial shutdown.<ref>{{Cite web | last = Drake | first = Kyle | title = Neocities.org: About Neocities.org | url = http://neocities.org/about | date = | accessdate = 14 July 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | last = Neal | first = Meghan | title = Neocities Is Recreating the Garish, Web 1.0 Creativity of Geocities &#124; Motherboard | url = http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/neocities-is-recreating-the-garish-web-10-creativity-of-geocities | publisher = [[Vice (magazine)|Vice]] | date = | accessdate = 14 July 2013 }}
</ref><ref>{{Cite web | last = | first = | title = Neocities — The Free Place to Code Your Own Site from Scratch | url = http://web.appstorm.net/reviews/web-dev/neocities-the-free-place-to-code-your-own-site-from-scratch/ | publisher = | date = | accessdate = 14 July 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | last = | first = | title = Neocities Wants to Save Us From the Crushing Boredom of Social Networking | url = http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/07/neocities/ | publisher = [[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] | date = | accessdate = 28 July 2013 }}</ref>


'''Neocities''' is a commercial [[web hosting service]] for static pages. It offers 1&nbsp;GB of storage space for free sites and no [[server-side scripting]] for both paid and free subscriptions. The service's expressed goal is to "revive the support of free web hosting of the now-defunct [[GeoCities]]". Neocities was launched in 2013 by Kyle Drake.<ref>{{cite web|last=Drake|first=Kyle|date=May 28, 2013|title=Making the Web Fun Again|url=https://neocities.org/blog/making-the-web-fun-again|url-status=live|website=The Neocities Blog|access-date=June 15, 2015|archive-date=June 7, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150607191157/https://neocities.org/blog/making-the-web-fun-again}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Jackson|first=Candace|date=2017-07-17|title=The Latest in Web Design? Retro Websites Inspired by the '90s|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/fashion/90s-web-design.html|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=July 18, 2017|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170718004325/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/fashion/90s-web-design.html|url-status=live}}</ref> As of April 2024, it hosted more than 765,600 sites.<ref>{{cite web |title=Neocities.org |url=https://neocities.org/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240412020502/https://neocities.org/ |archive-date=2024-04-12 |access-date=2024-04-12 |quote="Neocities is a social network of 765,600 web sites that are bringing back the lost individual creativity of the web."}} </ref> The service is powered by an open-source backend provided under the [[FreeBSD License|FreeBSD license]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-06-15 |title=NeoCities is bringing the eye-bleeding "spirit" of GeoCities back to the modern web |url=https://www.techspot.com/news/99085-neocities-bringing-eye-bleeding-spirit-geocities-back-modern.html |access-date=2024-09-04 |website=TechSpot |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=neocities/LICENSE.txt at master · neocities/neocities |url=https://github.com/neocities/neocities/blob/master/LICENSE.txt |access-date=2024-09-04 |website=GitHub |language=en}}</ref>
In December 2014, an upgrade of Neocities was launched, adding social functionality, more free web space, more editing features, and providing a supporter plan with additional features and web space.


== Features ==
== History ==
Neocities was created by Kyle Drake on May 23, 2013, and launched on June 28, 2013, offering 10 megabytes of file storage for every user.<ref>{{cite magazine|date=2016-05-08|first=Nick|last=Stockton|title=NeoCities Wants to Save Us From the Crushing Boredom of Social Networking|url=https://www.wired.com/2013/07/neocities/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20160508181509/http://www.wired.com/2013/07/neocities/|archive-date=May 8, 2016|magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]|access-date=December 12, 2021}}</ref> It initially served as an archive for sites previously hosted on GeoCities before the latter's shutdown.<ref>{{cite web|last=Drake|first=Kyle|date=May 23, 2013|title=I want to make another Geocities. Free web hosting, static HTML only, 10MB limit, anonymous, uncensored.|url=https://twitter.com/kyledrake/status/337706291801763841|url-status=live|access-date=December 29, 2020|website=Twitter|archive-date=December 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229162713/https://twitter.com/kyledrake/status/337706291801763841}}</ref>
===Free Accounts===
[[File:The_Original_Neocities_Login_Page.png|thumb|right|The Original Neocities Dashboard]]
[[File:The_Neocities_Dashboard.png|thumb|right|The Current Neocities Dashboard]]


On May 8, 2014, Neocities announced that it would limit the bandwidth speed of the [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]] headquarters to early dial-up modem speeds as a protest against FCC's stance on [[net neutrality]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2014/05/08/fcc-rate-limit.html|title=We are rate limiting the FCC to dialup modem speeds until they pay us for bandwidth|date=May 8, 2014|access-date=December 29, 2020|archive-date=December 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229163121/https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2014/05/08/fcc-rate-limit.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Drake|first=Kyle|date=May 9, 2014|title=The "fast lane" to internet civil war|url=https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2014/05/09/internet-civil-war.html|url-status=live|access-date=December 29, 2020|website=The Neocities Blog|archive-date=July 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725181642/https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2014/05/09/internet-civil-war.html}}</ref> This protest received wide attention<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXRdpwVSCa8|title=Young Turks - FCC Gets A Taste Of {{sic|It|'s|nolink=y}} Own Medicine|website=[[YouTube]]|access-date=February 4, 2020|archive-date=December 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229162648/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXRdpwVSCa8|url-status=live}}
Neocities offers a total of 100MB for free users, with file type restrictions. Neocities allows the following file types for free users:
*{{cite web|url=https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/web-host-gives-fcc-a-28-8kbps-slow-lane-in-net-neutrality-protest/|title=Web Host Gives FCC a 28.8Kbps Slow Lane in Net Neutrality Protest|website=[[Ars Technica]]|date=May 9, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140509180505/https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/web-host-gives-fcc-a-28-8kbps-slow-lane-in-net-neutrality-protest/|archive-date=May 9, 2014|url-status=live}}
*{{cite web|url=https://www.vox.com/2014/5/9/11626720/complaints-about-net-neutrality-flooding-the-fcc|title=Complaints About Net Neutrality Flooding the FCC|website=[[Vox.com]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200204201254/https://www.vox.com/2014/5/9/11626720/complaints-about-net-neutrality-flooding-the-fcc|archive-date=February 4, 2020|date=May 9, 2014|url-status=live}}
*{{cite web|url=https://www.networkworld.com/article/2226896/web-hosting-provider-give-fcc-a-dose-of-life-without-net-neutrality.html|title=Web hosting provider give FCC a dose of life without net neutrality|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200204201302/https://www.networkworld.com/article/2226896/web-hosting-provider-give-fcc-a-dose-of-life-without-net-neutrality.html|archive-date=February 4, 2020|date=May 12, 2014|author=Andy Patrizio|website=[[Network World]]|url-status=live}}
*{{cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/policy/2014/5/9/5699510/web-hosting-company-puts-fcc-in-slow-lane|title=Web Hosting Company Puts FCC In Slow Lane|date=May 9, 2014|website=[[The Verge]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140510093545/https://www.theverge.com/policy/2014/5/9/5699510/web-hosting-company-puts-fcc-in-slow-lane|archive-date=May 10, 2014|url-status=live}}
*{{cite web|url=https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140509/10392927179/webhost-protests-fccs-net-neutrality-proposal-limiting-fcc-access-to-288kbps.shtml?threaded=false&sp=1|title=Webhost Protests FCC's Net Neutrality Proposal By Limiting FCC Access To 28.8Kbps|website=[[Techdirt]]|date=May 9, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919095725/https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140509/10392927179/webhost-protests-fccs-net-neutrality-proposal-limiting-fcc-access-to-288kbps.shtml?threaded=false&sp=1|archive-date=September 19, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> and lasted until February 2, 2015.<ref>{{cite web|date=February 4, 2015|title=We have removed the FCC rate limit|url=https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2015/02/04/removed-fcc-rate-limit.html|url-status=live|access-date=December 29, 2020|website=The Neocities Blog|archive-date=June 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210621134914/https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2015/02/04/removed-fcc-rate-limit.html}}</ref>


The service hosted about 55,000 to 57,000 sites in 2015,<ref>{{Cite news|last=Koebler|first=Jason|date=October 26, 2015|title=There's An Entire Conference Dedicated to Geocities-Style Websites|work=Motherboard|publisher=[[Vice Media]]|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/3daznj/theres-an-entire-conference-dedicated-to-geocities-style-websites|access-date=December 12, 2021|archive-date=December 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211213000022/https://www.vice.com/en/article/3daznj/theres-an-entire-conference-dedicated-to-geocities-style-websites|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Dewey|first=Caitlin|date=November 10, 2015|title=The counterintuitive, GIF-tastic plan to redeem the modern Internet|language=en-US|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/11/10/the-counterintuitive-gif-tastic-plan-to-redeem-the-modern-internet/|access-date=2021-12-12|issn=0190-8286|archive-date=October 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211018060627/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/11/10/the-counterintuitive-gif-tastic-plan-to-redeem-the-modern-internet/|url-status=live}}</ref> which had risen to over 460,000 by 2022, {{Citation needed|date=June 2022}} and 615,700 by 2023.
*HTML


As of currently, Neocities allows 1&nbsp;GB of storage to free users, and 50&nbsp;GB of storage to "supporters".
*Various image Files ([[JPEG]], [[PNG]], [[GIF]], [[SVG]], and [[ICO]])


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== Usage ==
*[[Markdown]] files ([[md]])
Neocities allows users to create their own websites using [[HTML]], [[CSS]],<ref>{{Cite news|last=Valens|first=Ana|date=August 8, 2019|title=The best web hosting services for sex workers and adult artists|work=[[The Daily Dot]]|url=https://www.dailydot.com/irl/best-web-hosting-sex-workers-adult-creators-nsfw-content/|access-date=December 12, 2021|archive-date=December 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211213000031/https://www.dailydot.com/irl/best-web-hosting-sex-workers-adult-creators-nsfw-content/|url-status=live}}</ref> and [[JavaScript]], and the development tool comes with a built-in debugger for these languages.


Neocities has 2 options for users to store their data. A free plan, which has 1 gigabyte of data storage and slower transfer speeds, and a paid plan, which allows 50 gigabytes of storage and faster transfer speeds. The paid plan costs $5.00 per month, and funds go to server expenses.
*[[Javascript]] files ([[js]], [[json]], [[geojson]])


The files that free users can host on Neocities are restricted to HTML files, CSS files, Javascript files, [[Markdown]] files, [[XML]] files, text files, fonts and images. By upgrading to their paid plan, this restriction is removed. This restriction is in place to prevent it from becoming a "file dump".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://neocities.org/site_files/allowed_types |title=Neocities - Allowed File Types |date=n.d. |website=Neocities |access-date=July 21, 2022 |archive-date=June 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220626235606/https://neocities.org/site_files/allowed_types |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Cascading Style Sheets]]

*Text Files ([[txt]], [[text]], [[csv]], [[tsv]])

*[[XML]]

*Websafe Fonts ([[eot]], [[ttf]], [[woff]], [[woff2]], [[svg]])

*[[Midi]] Files<ref>https://neocities.org/site_files/allowed_types</ref>

Free accounts come with a dashboard for interacting, a file editor, and a dedicated sub domain (e.g. site.neocities.org). All websites are given a profile that allows people to post comments to sites. Along with his, there is also an activity feed. People can follow users sites on their dedicated feed pages (in the form of neocities.org/site/SiteName).


===Supporter Accounts===
A Neocities supporter account includes all the features of a free account, and adds the following features:

*No File Restrictions

*Custom [[Domain]] Support

*10GB File Storage

*2TB Bandwidth Limit

*Multiple sites to one account

*Remote [[filesystem]] support

*Custom [[SSL]] Certificates

*[[WebDAV]] uploading<ref>https://neocities.org/plan</ref>

=History=
[[File:The_Neocities_dashboard.png|thumb|right|The Activity Feed page that users are redirected to upon logging in]]
On May 23, 2013, Kyle Drake posted to his [[Twitter]] that he wanted to make a "GeoCities-like" website for the 21st century. He stated that this site would be free, have a large [[file size]] limit, and would be uncensored.<ref>https://twitter.com/kyledrake/status/337706291801763841</ref> He then created the Neocities homepage, running on [[Nginx]] web server software.

Later that month, he created his site as the first site in the Neocities database. After advertising to a variety of sites, other sites soon began to be made. In late June, the first blog post depicted how quickly the site has progressed was posted.<ref>https://neocities.org/blog/making-the-web-fun-again</ref>

In July, various updates were made to the Neocities website, both in UI and under-the-hood, now supporting [[HTTPS]] and a larger bandwidth allowance.<ref>https://neocities.org/blog/neocities-can-now-handle-two-million-web-sites</ref> It was also announced that all users on Neocities will own their web content in full, and nothing will be claimed by Neocites itself.<ref>https://neocities.org/blog/neocities-web-sites-now-have-property-rights</ref>

In May 2014, A blog post was made commemorating One Year of Service on Neocities. It is reported that 19,500 websites are on Neocities at this time. In celebration, Neocities raised the maximum website size (for free users) from 10MB to 20MB, and introduced a new, easier to use Dashboard. At this time, Neocities also introduced the Supporter program. This program allowed users to pay a small fee ($1 [[USD]] a month) to have near unlimited access to site resources.<ref>https://neocities.org/blog/making-the-web-fun-again-one-year-later</ref>

In protest of the FCC agreeing with [[Comcast|The Comcast Corporation]] in regards to [[Net Neutrality]], Neocities announced that it would limit the bandwidth speed into [[Washington D.C.]] to early [[dial-up]] Speeds, at 28.8kb/s.<ref>https://neocities.org/blog/the-fcc-is-now-rate-limited</ref><ref>https://neocities.org/blog/the-fast-lane-to-internet-civil-war</ref> This lasted until February 2, 2015.<ref>https://neocities.org/blog/the-fcc-rate-limit-is-removed</ref>

In December of 2014, Neocities announced they would go down for an major update. It was not announced what would be changed <ref>https://neocities.org/blog/saturday-downtime</ref>

On New Year's Eve, 2014, the first Open Company Report was released, detailing the Neocities practices. It details the costs of running Neocities, the various licences of Neocities, and what has been done so far. At the end of the report, it wished every user a Happy New Year.<ref>https://neocities.org/blog/open-company-progress-report-2014</ref>

In February 2015, a blog post was made linking a [[New York Times]] article saying that Net Nostalgia was coming back strong, and that sites like Neocities was leading the herd.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/02/27/magazine/Netstalgia.html</ref> Kyle Drake makes his argument against this, saying it is the ″Future of the Web″ rather than the past.<ref>https://neocities.org/blog/we-are-the-future</ref>

On April 22 it was reported that Neocities had over 43,500 websites on its server. It was announced that Neocities would be implementing a new code editor, for in-browser [[HTML]] editing, a [[webring]]-like navigation system would be implemented for all sites on Neocities for use in the website gallery, site profiles with an activity feed, more space (increasing from 20MB to 100MB), and improved subdirectory support.<ref>https://neocities.org/blog/the-new-neocities</ref>

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== See also ==
* [[Comparison of free web hosting services]]


== References ==
== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{official website|https://www.neocities.org}}


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Latest revision as of 03:57, 4 September 2024

Neocities
Penelope, the mascot of Neocities
Type of site
Web hosting
Created byKyle Drake
URLneocities.org
CommercialYes
RegistrationYes
LaunchedJune 28, 2013; 11 years ago (2013-06-28)
Written inRuby

Neocities is a commercial web hosting service for static pages. It offers 1 GB of storage space for free sites and no server-side scripting for both paid and free subscriptions. The service's expressed goal is to "revive the support of free web hosting of the now-defunct GeoCities". Neocities was launched in 2013 by Kyle Drake.[1][2] As of April 2024, it hosted more than 765,600 sites.[3] The service is powered by an open-source backend provided under the FreeBSD license.[4][5]

History

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Neocities was created by Kyle Drake on May 23, 2013, and launched on June 28, 2013, offering 10 megabytes of file storage for every user.[6] It initially served as an archive for sites previously hosted on GeoCities before the latter's shutdown.[7]

On May 8, 2014, Neocities announced that it would limit the bandwidth speed of the FCC headquarters to early dial-up modem speeds as a protest against FCC's stance on net neutrality.[8][9] This protest received wide attention[10] and lasted until February 2, 2015.[11]

The service hosted about 55,000 to 57,000 sites in 2015,[12][13] which had risen to over 460,000 by 2022, [citation needed] and 615,700 by 2023.

As of currently, Neocities allows 1 GB of storage to free users, and 50 GB of storage to "supporters".

Usage

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Neocities allows users to create their own websites using HTML, CSS,[14] and JavaScript, and the development tool comes with a built-in debugger for these languages.

Neocities has 2 options for users to store their data. A free plan, which has 1 gigabyte of data storage and slower transfer speeds, and a paid plan, which allows 50 gigabytes of storage and faster transfer speeds. The paid plan costs $5.00 per month, and funds go to server expenses.

The files that free users can host on Neocities are restricted to HTML files, CSS files, Javascript files, Markdown files, XML files, text files, fonts and images. By upgrading to their paid plan, this restriction is removed. This restriction is in place to prevent it from becoming a "file dump".[15]

References

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  1. ^ Drake, Kyle (May 28, 2013). "Making the Web Fun Again". The Neocities Blog. Archived from the original on June 7, 2015. Retrieved June 15, 2015.
  2. ^ Jackson, Candace (July 17, 2017). "The Latest in Web Design? Retro Websites Inspired by the '90s". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on July 18, 2017.
  3. ^ "Neocities.org". Archived from the original on April 12, 2024. Retrieved April 12, 2024. Neocities is a social network of 765,600 web sites that are bringing back the lost individual creativity of the web.
  4. ^ "NeoCities is bringing the eye-bleeding "spirit" of GeoCities back to the modern web". TechSpot. June 15, 2023. Retrieved September 4, 2024.
  5. ^ "neocities/LICENSE.txt at master · neocities/neocities". GitHub. Retrieved September 4, 2024.
  6. ^ Stockton, Nick (May 8, 2016). "NeoCities Wants to Save Us From the Crushing Boredom of Social Networking". Wired. Archived from the original on May 8, 2016. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  7. ^ Drake, Kyle (May 23, 2013). "I want to make another Geocities. Free web hosting, static HTML only, 10MB limit, anonymous, uncensored". Twitter. Archived from the original on December 29, 2020. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
  8. ^ "We are rate limiting the FCC to dialup modem speeds until they pay us for bandwidth". May 8, 2014. Archived from the original on December 29, 2020. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
  9. ^ Drake, Kyle (May 9, 2014). "The "fast lane" to internet civil war". The Neocities Blog. Archived from the original on July 25, 2021. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
  10. ^ "Young Turks - FCC Gets A Taste Of It's [sic] Own Medicine". YouTube. Archived from the original on December 29, 2020. Retrieved February 4, 2020.
  11. ^ "We have removed the FCC rate limit". The Neocities Blog. February 4, 2015. Archived from the original on June 21, 2021. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
  12. ^ Koebler, Jason (October 26, 2015). "There's An Entire Conference Dedicated to Geocities-Style Websites". Motherboard. Vice Media. Archived from the original on December 13, 2021. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  13. ^ Dewey, Caitlin (November 10, 2015). "The counterintuitive, GIF-tastic plan to redeem the modern Internet". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Archived from the original on October 18, 2021. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  14. ^ Valens, Ana (August 8, 2019). "The best web hosting services for sex workers and adult artists". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on December 13, 2021. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  15. ^ "Neocities - Allowed File Types". Neocities. n.d. Archived from the original on June 26, 2022. Retrieved July 21, 2022.
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