Neocities
| File:NeoCities logo.png | |
The Neocities Homepage, as of June 6, 2015 | |
Type of site | Web hosting |
|---|---|
| Created by | Kyle Drake |
| URL | neocities.org |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Yes |
Neocities (a portmanteau 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.[1][2][3][4]
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
Free Accounts
Neocities offers a total of 100MB for free users, with file type restrictions. Neocities allows the following file types for free users:
- HTML
- Markdown files (md)
- Javascript files (js, json, geojson)
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
History
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.[7] 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.[8]
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.[9] It was also announced that all users on Neocities will own their web content in full, and nothing will be claimed by Neocites itself.[10]
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.[11]
In protest of the FCC agreeing with 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.[12][13] This lasted until February 2, 2015.[14]
In December of 2014, Neocities announced they would go down for an major update. It was not announced what would be changed [15]
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.[16]
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.[17] Kyle Drake makes his argument against this, saying it is the ″Future of the Web″ rather than the past.[18]
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.[19]
See also
References
- ^ Drake, Kyle. "Neocities.org: About Neocities.org". Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- ^ Neal, Meghan. "Neocities Is Recreating the Garish, Web 1.0 Creativity of Geocities | Motherboard". Vice. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- ^ "Neocities — The Free Place to Code Your Own Site from Scratch". Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- ^ "Neocities Wants to Save Us From the Crushing Boredom of Social Networking". Wired. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
- ^ https://neocities.org/site_files/allowed_types
- ^ https://neocities.org/plan
- ^ https://twitter.com/kyledrake/status/337706291801763841
- ^ https://neocities.org/blog/making-the-web-fun-again
- ^ https://neocities.org/blog/neocities-can-now-handle-two-million-web-sites
- ^ https://neocities.org/blog/neocities-web-sites-now-have-property-rights
- ^ https://neocities.org/blog/making-the-web-fun-again-one-year-later
- ^ https://neocities.org/blog/the-fcc-is-now-rate-limited
- ^ https://neocities.org/blog/the-fast-lane-to-internet-civil-war
- ^ https://neocities.org/blog/the-fcc-rate-limit-is-removed
- ^ https://neocities.org/blog/saturday-downtime
- ^ https://neocities.org/blog/open-company-progress-report-2014
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/02/27/magazine/Netstalgia.html
- ^ https://neocities.org/blog/we-are-the-future
- ^ https://neocities.org/blog/the-new-neocities
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