Death is a new beginning

sadgrl.online

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Okay I did it... a server for nostalgia about the old internet~ https://discord.gg/ZrUQdZvzVr plz go easy on me I'm shy ;o;
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flamedfury's avatar flamedfury 4 years ago

Can’t wait to join!

I know there's a lot of Neocities discord servers floating around. Would you join one focused on ~cyberculture~ and ~old web~ if I made one? Idk just throwing some ideas out there.
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I want to make visual art but I CANNOT draw, does anyone have any uh... cheats or workarounds? XD I need ART SHORTCUTS!! I need to express myself but I only make garbage :x
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ribbn's avatar ribbn 4 years ago

You could try other visual media! Maybe even mixed media. Dadaism is a neat style that doesn't typically involve much drawing.

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keysklubhouse's avatar keysklubhouse 4 years ago

Uh, lately my tactic has been: sketch in my sketchbook, take a photo (I don't have a scanner), then digitize it with the line tool in Paint Tool Sai (which I highly recommend). Other than that, I can only offer the dreaded "practice," lol.

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teddybear-halo's avatar teddybear-halo 4 years ago

i'm all about collage! i think it's a really great way to express yourself :') and you don't neccesarily need physical media to do it either: you can do it digitally, with an app if you'd prefer! (Picsart is a really neat app that allows people to upload transparent pngs to use as stickers, it's rly fun!)

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sadgrl's avatar sadgrl 4 years ago

Thank you all for the replies!! I wish I could respond to you individually... and I doubt you guys will see this but I just put in a feature request for comment replies. Unlikely but at least I tried lol. I LOVE YOU ALL <3

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proletarian-library's avatar proletarian-library 4 years ago

I can't draw either. I use Inkscape. You manipulate nodes with a mouse and keyboard until the buggy-ass program crashes and you get angry. But it works most of the time.

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ngmi's avatar ngmi 4 years ago

you could learn to draw. I did that and it works sometimes.

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hey sadgrl, check out https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/ its a really fun newsletter and you can spend hours reading through his blog archives. lots of great old web history to soak up in there!
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sadgrl's avatar sadgrl 4 years ago

Thank you so much for this recommendation! This is exactly everything I've been looking for!

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flamedfury's avatar flamedfury 4 years ago

one of my favourite homepages and newsletters! so many memories in there :)

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So apparently if you sign up with an account at Archive.org, it gives you an option to "save outlinks" when you add a page, which will automatically archive all pages of the site. I had no idea!! Brb while I spend the next 6 hours archiving ;~;
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flamedfury's avatar flamedfury 4 years ago

i'm going to get onto this too

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thedigitaldiarist's avatar thedigitaldiarist 4 years ago

yes! this is a great feature. when you save a page, it'll archive all the pages that are linked on that page. especially useful if you have a site map that links to every page on your site - then you can archive the whole thing in one go!!

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Thank you so much for your feedback on my page <3 Also thanks for pointing out curated link directories. (I didn't know about href.cool!) I will definitely explore and list these, especially now that I have a "name" for what they are. Thank you!!!
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flamedfury's avatar flamedfury 4 years ago

glad that it helped :) i believe that with places like neocities, link directories we have a real opportunity for the small web to flourish outside of the corporate, hostile web :)

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letslearntogether's avatar letslearntogether 4 years ago

You can also use HTTrack, a piece of software for making a local copy of a website. It is available for multiple operating systems and is fairly easy to use.

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flamedfury's avatar flamedfury 4 years ago

love this article. i have pangs of regret for not having a lot of my early web sites archived. the web archive was just getting started back around then but i've lost so much with deleted files, dying harddrives. the earliest of my works i can find is from 99 and all the images are missing. oh well, more on top of it these days :)

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flamedfury's avatar flamedfury 4 years ago

on surftheweb.html there's great opportunity to start exploring hand currated link directories that have been started in the last few years. similar to what yahoo! first started as, check out kickscondor.com who i feel is leading the charge with his link directory https://href.cool. love your newoldweb series :)

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nightcity's avatar nightcity 4 years ago

neocities used to let you download your entire website in a zip file so you could back it up that way. It was a super useful feature, but I guess they had to get rid of it. I don't know why.

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purplehello98's avatar purplehello98 4 years ago

you can still download your site in a zip file, from the dashboard at the bottom left corner

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nightcity's avatar nightcity 4 years ago

That's odd, because the link is no longer there for me. Perhaps it has something to do with the size of the website? (mine is just under 20mb). Honestly, this is a mystery to me.

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letslearntogether's avatar letslearntogether 4 years ago

I think you are right. I noticed my link disappeared too after I hit a certain size.

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sadgrl's avatar sadgrl 4 years ago

I also do not have the link on my dashboard anymore. I definitely used to. But supporters can download their archive via Cyberduck on Windows, so I guess I'll manually archive every so often.

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