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MrGrumpyMonkey<p>What's a good night from my point of view?</p><p>* 20mg of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cannabis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cannabis</span></a> edible<br>* <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackSunEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackSunEmpire</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DrumAndBass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DrumAndBass</span></a> <br>* Calling out <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Corporate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Corporate</span></a> bullshit<br>* Calling out Human Laziness, while being the laziest SOB on the planet<br>* Surrounded by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CatsOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CatsOfMastodon</span></a> <br>* Eating fresh hamburgers and grapes<br>* The ability to share nonsense, on the best social media system since <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GeoCities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeoCities</span></a> with anyone else using <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> </p><p>What else does anyone need? My life is good. I hope everyone else is having a good life too.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Boost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Boost</span></a></p>
Stefan Bohacek<p>"The level of creativity and versatility on display on your average Geocities site is hard to understate. Most were a cross between amateur experiments and love letters to this or that piece of pop culture. They were plastered with recipes, vacation photos, esoteric images, and tidbits of slash fiction."</p><p><a href="https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/exploring-the-web-in-1995/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thehistoryoftheweb.com/explori</span><span class="invisible">ng-the-web-in-1995/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/TheWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheWeb</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/geocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geocities</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Wayback Proxy Lets Your Browser Party Like It’s 1999 - This project is a few years old, but it might be appropriate to cover it late sinc... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/05/26/wayback-proxy-lets-your-browser-party-like-its-1999/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2025/05/26/waybac</span><span class="invisible">k-proxy-lets-your-browser-party-like-its-1999/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/internetarchive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>internetarchive</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/internethacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>internethacks</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/earlyinternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>earlyinternet</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/rasberrypi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rasberrypi</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/geocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geocities</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/proxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>proxy</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a></p>
Richard MacManus<p>Good discussion happening on Hacker News about my <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GeoCities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeoCities</span></a> 1995 post: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43296103" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4</span><span class="invisible">3296103</span></a></p><p>If you're on Hacker News, I'd appreciate your upvotes (I think this is the first time a Cybercultural post has got to the front page there).</p>
Stefan Bohacek<p>"The key to [Beverly Hills Internet]'s initial growth over 1995 was helping people who had no technical knowledge of HTML to build a web page on the internet. It offered a “Personal GeoPage Generator” that enabled homesteaders to easily create a home page.</p><p>But more than that, and as the name for its users implied, Bohnett wanted to give people the sense that they had a home on the internet."</p><p><a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/geocities-1995/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/geocities-</span><span class="invisible">1995/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/TheWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheWeb</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/geocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geocities</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/InternetHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InternetHistory</span></a></p>
Richard MacManus<p>A look back at GeoCities in 1995 (30 years ago!), including a couple of rare screenshots of the GeoCities website from 1995 — when it was still known as Beverly Hills Internet. <a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/geocities-1995/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/geocities-</span><span class="invisible">1995/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InternetHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InternetHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GeoCities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeoCities</span></a> (special thanks to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://olia.geocities.institute/@GIFmodel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>GIFmodel</span></a></span> for the knowledge and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://digipres.club/@andrewjbtw" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>andrewjbtw</span></a></span> for the 1995 BHI images)</p>
Richard MacManus<p>I spent far too much time today searching for 1995 screenshots of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Geocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Geocities</span></a>…there are hardly any! The few I did find were via <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://olia.geocities.institute/@GIFmodel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>GIFmodel</span></a></span> and a couple of other archive sites (e.g. <a href="https://geocities.restorativland.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">geocities.restorativland.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>). ‘95 was before Geocities really broke out, over 96-97, but still… quite sad there are seemingly very very few screenshots of early Geocities (when it was still “Beverly Hills Internet”). But do let me know if you can source any for me — it’s for next Cybercultural post.</p>
Stefan Bohacek<p>Happy New Year 2009, from One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age!</p><p>"The last year of GeoCities has started. The closure announcement will come on April 23, 2009."</p><p><a href="https://blog.geocities.institute/archives/7454" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.geocities.institute/archi</span><span class="invisible">ves/7454</span></a></p><p><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/TheWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheWeb</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/geocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geocities</span></a></p>
Dusk To Don :raccoon:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_nina" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>nina_kali_nina</span></a></span> </p><p>Agreed.</p><p>*wistful sigh*</p><p>At least we can still resize unstyled &lt;textarea&gt; to our hearts' content. :blobcathyper: </p><p>Hat tip to the brilliant <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> for this WILD tale of the early days . . .</p><p><a href="https://cohost.org/mcc/post/325362-a-one-person-oral-hi" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cohost.org/mcc/post/325362-a-o</span><span class="invisible">ne-person-oral-hi</span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/webDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webDev</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/earlyWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>earlyWeb</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/geoCities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geoCities</span></a></p>
Ecologia Digital<p>"I just wanted to ask: Do you remember the first time you felt like <a href="https://mato.social/tags/theWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theWeb</span></a> was magic?<br><a href="https://mato.social/tags/Neopets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Neopets</span></a> was the first such discovery for me, but it was far from the last. Soon after, I would discover free web hosting services like <a href="https://mato.social/tags/GeoCities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeoCities</span></a>, where I was allowed to do a lot more than was allowed in the Neopets sandboxed page editor. Then I discovered that I could edit <a href="https://mato.social/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a>. Twelve years old, I saw “the encyclopedia that anyone could edit”, and I was like, "I’m anyone!""<br><a href="https://www.citationneeded.news/fighting-for-our-web/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">citationneeded.news/fighting-f</span><span class="invisible">or-our-web/</span></a></p>
Mandu 🥟<p>doing my best to turn my feed into a <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GeoCities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeoCities</span></a> clone</p>
Mandu 🥟<p>google "geocities" and behold the comic sans</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/geocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geocities</span></a></p>
Kenny Smith<p>I no longer need games on my <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/phone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>phone</span></a>. I spend all of my screen time closing these ridiculous pop up <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/videos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>videos</span></a> designers have foisted upon us. </p><p>I just left a site where I closed one <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/interstitial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>interstitial</span></a> video and two more appeared in its place, like this is 1997 or something.</p><p>Be better than <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Geocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Geocities</span></a>.</p>
booters<p>Back in March I scanned through a terabyte of old geocities sites with the goal of finding *all* the 88x31 buttons. Recently, I realised that I didn't scan for all the geocities subsites (e.g. de.geocities.com, br.geocities.com, etc). I've fixed that mistake and have added 1.8k new 88x31 buttons from Germany, Brazil, Hong Kong and many more international sites. Feel free to explore the updated site or download the zipped button archive (31k buttons, 156MB)</p><p>&gt;&gt;&gt; <a href="https://hellnet.work/8831/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">hellnet.work/8831/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> &lt;&lt;&lt;</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/indieweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/smallweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>smallweb</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/geocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geocities</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/neocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neocities</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/88x31" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>88x31</span></a></p>
🧿🪬🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸<p>You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/webDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webDev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geocities</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/html" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>html</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/css" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>css</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/yahoo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>yahoo</span></a></p>
Paul Chambers🚧<p>I can't believe we went from GeoCities to whatever the hell you want to call user-generated internet is today. <a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/InternetArchive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InternetArchive</span></a> <a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/GeoCities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeoCities</span></a></p><p>🔗 Here's the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>internetarchive</span></a></span> project for Geocities <a href="https://archive.org/web/geocities.php" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.org/web/geocities.php</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>🔗 GifCities, The GeoCities Animated GIF Search Engine, is a special project of the Internet Archive to celebrate 20 years of preserving the web. <a href="https://gifcities.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">gifcities.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Chris Hartgerink (they/them)<p>Thanks <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>404mediaco</span></a></span> for reminding me how awesome the <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/Geocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Geocities</span></a> times were.</p>
booters<p>I spent the last week scraping through a terabyte of GeoCities archives and collecting ALL THE <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/88x31" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>88x31</span></a> buttons! In the end, I gathered 29257 unique buttons (75k with duplicates). They are available at <a href="https://hellnet.work/8831/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">hellnet.work/8831/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Check them out!</p><p>I also have the dataset (~160MB), stats and a bit about the scraping process here: <a href="https://hellnet.work/8831/stats.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">hellnet.work/8831/stats.html</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/indieweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/smallweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>smallweb</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/geocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geocities</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/neocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neocities</span></a></p>
David Bisset<p>Why I 🧡 the web.</p><p>"SURF THE WEB LIKE IT'S 1999!"</p><p><a href="https://billsworld.neocities.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">billsworld.neocities.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://phpc.social/tags/GeoCities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeoCities</span></a> <a href="https://phpc.social/tags/oldschool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oldschool</span></a></p>
tallship<p>Thank you for the optimistic PoV on the entrance of others to the <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/desoc" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DeSoc</a> of the Fediverse. It is an optimism that I share - especially with Matthias' announcement just an hour ago that his team behind the development of the <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/wordpress" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WordPress</a> ActivityPub plugin <strong><em>has just released version 2.0.0</em></strong> - considering <em>the enormous footprint of WordPress installations across the entire Internet belonging to both common, everyday individuals and companies alike, of every shape and size</em>, this is <strong>HUGE news</strong>.</p><p>It instantly, overnight, positions common folks and businesses to leap into the freedoms afforded them by the existing, privacy respecting, <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/foss" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> based Fediverse that hitherto was... well, a bit of a leap for them psychologically. But now they have a familiar platform with which to begin a journey through the minefields of the <strong>deprecated, privacy mining, monolithic silos</strong>; its proprietors programming their masses of <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/subjugated_chattel" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#subjugated_chattel</a> into livestock holding pens, where they are weighed, measured, packaged, placed into inventory, and sold.</p><p><strong>That does raise the issue of an error in your assertions however</strong>. You mentioned, <code>"instances in Meta's fediverses and on Bluesky"</code>.</p><p>The truth however, the reality, is that <strong><em>each are merely a single instance - One big monolithic silo, as described above</em></strong>, with the same incentives of <em>monetization through privacy mining</em> techniques that have made them the dreadnoughts that they are; at least in the case of <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/meta" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Meta</a> (Threads).</p><p>Bluesky is of that vertically scaling market as well, but much smaller than the <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/faceplant" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Faceplant</a> and <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/instaspam" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InstaSPAM</a> engines operated by Meta, and now their new spearhead into the DeSoc space occupied by ActivityPub and other decentralized or federated protocol based, horizontally scaling instances.</p><p><a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/bluesky" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bluesky</a> hasn't actually shown their hand yet to the general public, but already, they've disenfranchised (fired) much of their talent; some, actually principal architects of their monolith who were frustrated and disillusioned with the direction Jay has been taking the company - moving further and further away from the disowned public community they spawned, organized, and abandoned following the initial trials and tests of the open source preview version of what became <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/atp" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ATP</a> protocol (ATX). </p><p>Even Jack has moved on and embraced yet another horizontally scaling protocol in the DeSoc space, <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/nostr" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nostr</a>, and it's already bridged and interoperating flawlessly with the ActivityPub powered portion of the Fediverse, which in turn interoperates with instances running other protocols such as <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/nomad" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nomad</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/ostatus" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OStatus</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/streams" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Streams</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/diaspora" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Diaspora</a>, and <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/zot" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ZOT</a>... all of them part of the Fediverse.</p><p>Many of the extant <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/activitypub" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ActivityPub</a> powered instances in the Fediverse merely need to install these capabilities with a couple of clicks to enable this interoperability, while others bridge the divide through infrastructure developed and deployed over the past year or so. </p><p><strong>What will be Meta's use case here for their business product?</strong> </p><p>That's the main question I think folks need to address - not punish the good people on the so-called evil side of the divide, the hitherto subjugated chattel that populate Marks so-called <em>Metaverse</em> or whatever he thinks he can compel people to adopt and endure. The point is, childish, domain level blocking by juvenile minds operating ActivityPub powered <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> server instances only serves to paint themselves (and the users who have to date trusted those admins with being told what they can and cannot see and do) into a corner where they effectively cancel themselves, and find that their users have migrated to other spaces... maybe WordPress, where they truly control their own destiny in the DeSoc space and can now fully participate and engage with others - but on their own terms, not someone else's.</p><p>And that, I believe, is what the whole thing has always been about, going back as far as <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/angelfire" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AngelFire</a> and <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/geocities" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GeoCities</a> :) </p><p>I do agree with you that we should indeed embrace these common, everyday individuals who, through their programmed ignorance, are mostly clueless as to exactly what the Fediverse is, and more importantly, has always promised for them. This is an opportunity, like Steve Austin, (the Six Million Dollar Man): <strong><em>"We can rebuild them, we have the technology, we can make them better, stronger, faster..."</em></strong></p><p>One more thing I should correct you on, the Fediverse is an internetwork of networks, on the Internet - there are no <em>fediverses</em>, Fediverse is itself a plurality, but your intent wasn't lost on me.</p><p>Great article, I enjoyed the read and most of all, your optimistically tempered intent. Thanks for sharing and I hope to see much more from you in the future! </p><p><a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/tallship" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tallship</a></p><p>⛵ </p><p>.</p>