Neocities
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 Penelope, the mascot of Neocities | |
Type of site | Web hosting |
|---|---|
| Founded | May 24, 2013 |
| Dissolved | March 7, 2022 |
| Created by | Kyle Drake |
| URL | neocities.org |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Yes |
| Current status | Defunct |
Neocities was a commercial web hosting service for static pages. It offered 1 GB of storage space for free sites and no server-side scripting for both paid and free subscriptions. The service's expressed goal was to revive the support of free web hosting of the now-defunct GeoCities. Neocities started in 2013.[1][2] As of 2017, it hosted more than 140,000 sites.[2]
History
Neocities was created by its founder Kyle Drake on May 23, 2013 and launched on June 28, 2013, offering 10 megabytes of file storage for every user.[3] It initially served as an archive for sites previously hosted on GeoCities before the latter's shutdown.[4]
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.[5][6] This protest received wide attention[7][8][9][10][11][12] and lasted until February 2, 2015.[13]
The service hosted about 55,000 to 57,000 sites in 2015,[14][15] which had risen to over 140,000 by 2017.[2]
Until March 7, 2022, Neocities allows 1 GB of storage to free users, and 50 GB of storage to "supporters".
On March 7, 2022, the service went defunct, because it was unavailable.
Usage
Neocities allowed users to create their own websites using programming languages such as HTML, CSS,[16] and JavaScript. The tool comes with a built-in debugger for the languages listed previously. It also allows you to use other languages as well, but it will not check your errors.
Neocities had 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.
References
- ^ Drake, Kyle (May 28, 2013). "Making the Web Fun Again". The Neocities Blog.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b c Jackson, Candace (July 17, 2017). "The Latest in Web Design? Retro Websites Inspired by the '90s". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
- ^ "NeoCities Wants to Save Us From the Crushing Boredom of Social Networking". Wired. May 8, 2016. Archived from the original on May 8, 2016. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
- ^ Drake, Kyle (May 23, 2013). "I want to make another Geocities. Free web hosting, static HTML only, 10MB limit, anonymous, uncensored". Twitter. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "We are rate limiting the FCC to dialup modem speeds until they pay us for bandwidth". May 8, 2014. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
- ^ Drake, Kyle (May 9, 2014). "The "fast lane" to internet civil war". The Neocities Blog. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Young Turks - FCC Gets A Taste Of It's [sic] Own Medicine". YouTube.
- ^ "Web Host Gives FCC a 28.8Kbps Slow Lane in Net Neutrality Protest". Ars Technica. May 9, 2014. Archived from the original on May 9, 2014.
- ^ "Complaints About Net Neutrality Flooding the FCC". Vox.com. May 9, 2014. Archived from the original on February 4, 2020.
- ^ Andy Patrizio (May 12, 2014). "Web hosting provider give FCC a dose of life without net neutrality". Network World. Archived from the original on February 4, 2020.
- ^ "Web Hosting Company Puts FCC In Slow Lane". The Verge. May 9, 2014. Archived from the original on May 10, 2014.
- ^ "Webhost Protests FCC's Net Neutrality Proposal By Limiting FCC Access To 28.8Kbps". Techdirt. Archived from the original on September 19, 2015.
- ^ "We have removed the FCC rate limit". The Neocities Blog. February 4, 2015. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Koebler, Jason (October 26, 2015). "There's An Entire Conference Dedicated to Geocities-Style Websites". Motherboard. Vice Media. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
- ^ Dewey, Caitlin (November 10, 2015). "The counterintuitive, GIF-tastic plan to redeem the modern Internet". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
- ^ Valens, Ana (August 8, 2019). "The best web hosting services for sex workers and adult artists". The Daily Dot. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
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