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 The logo of Neocities, featuring its mascot Penelope | |
| File:Neocities.org Front Page.png The Neocities Homepage, as of October 16, 2019 | |
Type of site | Web hosting |
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| Created by | Kyle Drake |
| URL | neocities |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Yes |
| Launched | May 24, 2013 |
Neocities (a portmanteau of the prefix neo- and GeoCities) is a free web hosting service. Offering 1 GB 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 shutdown in the United States of America and Japan in 2009 and 2019, respectively. Kyle Drake started Neocities in 2013.[1] In February 2020[update], Neocities reported that it had over 276,700 websites on its server.[2]
History
On May 23, 2013, Kyle Drake posted to his Twitter that he wanted to make a "GeoCities-like" website for the modern web.[3]
In protest of the FCC stance on net neutrality, Neocities announced on May 8, 2014 that it would limit the bandwidth speed of the FCC headquarters to early dial-up modem speeds[4] as a stunt.[5] This protest received wide attention[6][7][8][9][10][11] and lasted until February 2, 2015.[12]
References
- ^ "The Official NeoCities Blog". neocities.org.
- ^ "Neocities". Neocities - neocities.org.
- ^ "Kyle Drake on Twitter: I want to make another Geocities. Free web hosting, static HTML only, 10MB limit, anonymous, uncensored".
- ^ "We are rate limiting the FCC to dialup modem speeds until they pay us for bandwidth".
- ^ "The "fast lane" to internet civil war".
- ^ "Young Turks - FCC Gets A Taste Of It's [sic] Own Medicine".
- ^ "Web Host Gives FCC a 28.8Kbps Slow Lane in Net Neutrality Protest".
- ^ "Complaints About Net Neutrality Flooding the FCC".
- ^ "Web hosting provider give FCC a dose of life without net neutrality".
- ^ "Web Hosting Company Puts FCC In Slow Lane".
- ^ "Webhost Protests FCC's Net Neutrality Proposal By Limiting FCC Access To 28.8Kbps".
- ^ "We have removed the FCC rate limit".
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