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I'm glad! I want to encourage anyone to write about websites they like, whether it's old or new. I started writing about old websites I have a special feeling towards, but it's evolving into the idea of writing about things people talk about on their websites; their blogs, etc, someone's website layout and how it looks, or what I like about someone's website

I really feel as if you make a personal connection to someone's website when you write about them, compared to leaving a like or a small comment that the social media world gives you. And that can be good, don't get me wrong. But the person you write about might feel acknowledged; I feel when you write about them, you can encourage them to keep doing what they love. That's one of the best things you could ever do. —

— Not only you would motivate them, but you would encourage others to check out their website too! I could be wrong, but I've never seen people do this sort of thing...... from what I've seen. But if it's something you want to do too, go ahead! Thinking about that makes me excited to see what people write about

You'll make an .ahk file with this inside as the contents: !-:: { Send "—" }

^ A file with just that inside, exactly like that! http://www.autohotkey.com — I use the 2.0 version I've got to figure out a way to do the same thing with a similar program on Linux; it's a Windows program................

I hope this helps others who really want to write — one of these things And if there's a more practical way of doing it and if there's a better way of doing this, let me know! We all learn from each other

man i wish i had that tutorial sooner it wouldve saved me a lot of learning lol

@goopatheguick I've taken the tutorial before when I first started and it really just went over some basic concepts of HTML...... and that was okay! 'Specially because it was at that time where I didn't know absolutely ANYTHING about HTML.................... which still surprises me of how long it's been But I bet I'd recommend it to anyone now who wants to make a 'site -

or learn more of how to make a 'site since it's got updated!

this is gonna be very useful. Although I think the tutorial with the comic is only when you first sign up?

@lemerks I've been on here for two years at this point (still surprised) and I did see the comic tutorial when I was on here before the whole dark mode and search engine update, there's times I would just look back at it for fun, it was just on that same page. It actually used to be: https://neocities.org/tutorial but they added an 's' to the URL!

- through a freeware program........ I've been thinking of making part of my 'site or a seperate one that uses a table layout and older things for fun, I was thinking of putting Real Media files on there. Definitely wouldn't use 'em on my main 'site and *mainly* use RealPlayer.... no. Been wondering what people's experiences were with it long ago and thought: why not ask you?

In those times, due to where I lived, internet was slow and expensive. Another factor was that I was poor, and computers were expensive back then, which meant all I had was a knock-off Pentium II clone that could barely play a GIF file. Mid-1998 the internet speed was 33,6kpbs here, so video sharing was deemed basically a non-starter.

Early in 2000 I was finishing my work-back period at the state owned telco. I used that last opportunity before I left, to download the Sonic OVA, it took an excruciating 14 hours overnight to pull down a 266Mbyte 640x480 video compressed with MPEG-4, and when I got it my computer didn't have the grunt to play it. During 2003-2004 we got our anime, movies everything from LANs and/or anime screening weekends

In 2005 broadband internet arrived, albeit <1MBps... and with ridiculous data caps of 3GBytes. But there were ways and means to bypass it, and that we did... And then came YouTube.. 2008 was when I got into it really

And now we have 400/400Mbps optical fiber into my home... but I don't take it for granted because I remember the times when my lousy, slow, internet connection COST MORE than this state-of-the-art

@sonic2k Thank you so much for telling me about this! I've always heard and known about clones of electronics but I haven't even heard of clones of CPUs before? I guess you could only load web pages with text & images to a point..... and there was the option to disable images and scripts built into browsers or separate extensions

I bet that felt really good to be able to download the whole Sonic OVA at your workplace at the time, or if I'm misconceptioning; they provided you internet at home. But sad that you didn't have enough computer power to play it :( Anyone can overlook at how MPEG-4 can run fine and play on any computer nowadays, but codecs are powerful, complicated things

Were the data caps from the ISP? Wondering how that worked..... that's great you were able to get past it And nowadays with fiber internet, we people get frustrated and spoiled when we're downloading from a slow server!

Thanks! We've been making tons of new art and progress on the game! and can't wait to show you all!

hi knuckles!!!!

knunkles

jeremiah

klunkles

who is JEREMIAH?!!???

@radicalblur hes jeremiah

....... and then it makes me sad, I feel as if I'm lagging behind in not only my personal projects but trying to keep up with what's going on in the world at times....... I can not take it all at once I learned a new word today and it really fits with this! I don't want to be perfunctory with what I do

Don't worry dude don't be sad for these things,just take the time for finishing your stuffs ;) I, too, don't really keep up with the news sometimes, you know ;) But what makes these sites on Neocities so incredible is that we took our time creating them... WITH PASSION ! So,please,don't worry for that.

@sonic-dunyasi Thank you ;))) I learned that I'm one of those people who have several interests, several things I want to learn and do in my life, several hobbies..... and I need to learn how to balance it out There's times I feel sad because I don't feel finished with the layout of my website, but I think I need to accept it as it is

- It doesn't mean I can't improve it later. I'm inspired by pretty much everyone and everyone I know at least on here, I do feel sad at times when I see where someone else is with their website and that I'm not finished with what I'm making But I need to forgive myself, going to take a break and take my time with what I want to do

hi,hmmm... sorry man idk

Here is best for neocities profiles or if you like others outside of to see, the guestbook is ok too. I'm still trying to figure out what's the best option for everyone. :)

@transwolfman I prefer talking on others' profiles, there's times I like to steer away from the social side of Neocities and that's why I wrote over there at the guestbook.... I guess it's personal preference, gotta figure it out too

@radicalblur That's understandable, I get it since I'm kinda the same way. It depends on what and how long my message is. The site review on the guestbook was very nice, thanks. That was a good place for it actually. Now that we have dark mode, DMs when? lol

@transwolfman Direct messages would be...... fun? I was thinking about having a public e-mail up on my 'site for that since I miss e-mail, no one e-mails anymore :( Still debating with myself on that, but I want it to be more of a e-mail just to have fun with...... not any boring "important" stuff on it

@radicalblur I think a public e-mail is a great idea. I made one myself with the same idea in mind, a separate e-mail just for fun things that I'd like to stay closer attention to and get away from the messiness of spam. Direct messages are neat having a quick back and forth convo for folks who many not wanna display their e-mail. Receiving some e-mail from real people is awesome though and people should do it more.

@transwolfman That makes me happy that you've got that exact intent too. But thank you, that really encourages me to put the mailbox up when I get to it I think I'd have to write about this some time; ever since I joined here, I've met people that not only have similar interests as me but actually accept me as who I am. The thing about having a website is that it's your own place, the people that don't care won't -

- come. But the people that do.......... will. For me, it's something I've never really felt before because of having to "fit in" with this group, or this community, or this online chat, or...... the whole concept of social media in general because it limits how people express themselves Yeah...... I could go on about it. Been wanting to look at possibilities of things people don't regularly think of to do, not -

- only things that are considered "outdated" and that people don't do anymore........ but things that people feel..... I don't think 'embarrassed' is really the word but more of a "people won't like this, so why should I do it?" ....... because that's how social media wants you to think And that's *really* limited people over the years...... just want to see if there's something new I can do

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15612120/how-do-i-make-an-audio-file-play-continuously-on-all-pages :(((((((( I guess it's not possible to have something *seamless*, there's got to be a way.............

If you want it seamless it would have to be some iframe + .js work I think

As long as tehy can be turned off, they are ok

My 'site used to be in an iframe system but I didn't like how flexible it was..... and that's how I got to the system I have now ........I could make it abrupt and slowly fade in or continue where it was last, surprises me how web development's gone far but they *still* don't have an ability for something like this

@lemerks ^ Agree on that!

This reminds me of the Dreamcast, they used ADX files and those files had a feature that would allow loops. I do not recall but I do know it has been done with MP3 files and possibly I've done it with a FLAC file. A recent slot machine I hacked (to be covered in a future article on my site) definitely exploits that feature and their stuff is all MP3 files. I would do it in the audio file itself first

Ditto on lemerks' opinion, but I'd also add if you can change volume. There are plenty of websites that allow that through custom players or by just plopping the file on the page. Although I feel like getting people to listen to ambience is hard these days, when browsers disable autoplay by default.

@sonic2k Whew......... haven't been on here in a while, I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE ADX files and I've always wondered if there's ever a way gain support for Cri-Ware's audio format on the web in a hacky way or natively or whatever.... I think I remember seeing a repository about it where someone was getting it running with Javascript But that's interesting stuff? Looking forward to your article!

I bet this is something I'd consider far in the future, I'm already trying to figure out my website's layout all over again ^ Agree with Vladimir, I'd definitely make the volume a *reasonable level* but having a slider would also be a good thing Yeah..... it would definitely be an optional setting, I'm planning on having a settings menu for the 'site where you can adjust those sorts of extra things. It *could* be -

- a scenario where someone decides to turn on Autoplay while viewing my 'site and boom! SOUND...... but I'd have an option in that *future settings menu* where you could shut it off...... and then there's me wanting to balance out my 'site and not have a whole load of scripts, even if they're minified I really like that idea of importing whatever song you'd like

Sure! I know...... the links page is a mess and I don't like how it looks either with white text on an ORANGE background but I'll get to that!