Neocities Explained

Neocities
Commercial:Yes
Type:Web hosting
Registration:Yes
Author:Kyle Drake
Programming Language:Ruby

Neocities is a commercial web hosting service for static pages. It offers 1 GB of storage space for free sites and no server-side scripting for both paid and free subscriptions. The service's expressed goal is to "revive the support of free web hosting of the now-defunct GeoCities". Neocities was launched in 2013 by Kyle Drake.[1] [2] As of April 2024, it hosted more than 765,600 sites.[3]

History

Neocities was created by Kyle Drake on May 23, 2013, and launched on June 28, 2013, offering 10 megabytes of file storage for every user.[4] It initially served as an archive for sites previously hosted on GeoCities before the latter's shutdown.[5]

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.[6] [7] This protest received wide attention[8] and lasted until February 2, 2015.[9]

The service hosted about 55,000 to 57,000 sites in 2015,[10] [11] which had risen to over 460,000 by 2022, and 615,700 by 2023.

As of currently, Neocities allows 1 GB of storage to free users, and 50 GB of storage to "supporters".

Usage

Neocities allows users to create their own websites using HTML, CSS,[12] and JavaScript, and the development tool comes with a built-in debugger for these languages.

Neocities has 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.

The files that free users can host on Neocities are restricted to HTML files, CSS files, Javascript files, Markdown files, XML files, text files, fonts and images. By upgrading to their paid plan, this restriction is removed. This restriction is in place to prevent it from becoming a "file dump".[13]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Drake. Kyle. May 28, 2013. Making the Web Fun Again. live. The Neocities Blog. June 15, 2015. June 7, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150607191157/https://neocities.org/blog/making-the-web-fun-again.
  2. News: Jackson. Candace. 2017-07-17. The Latest in Web Design? Retro Websites Inspired by the '90s. en-US. The New York Times. 0362-4331. July 18, 2017. https://archive.today/20170718004325/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/fashion/90s-web-design.html. live.
  3. Web site: Neocities.org . https://web.archive.org/web/20240412020502/https://neocities.org/ . 2024-04-12 . 2024-04-12 . "Neocities is a social network of 765,600 web sites that are bringing back the lost individual creativity of the web.".
  4. 2016-05-08. Nick. Stockton. NeoCities Wants to Save Us From the Crushing Boredom of Social Networking. live. https://archive.today/20160508181509/http://www.wired.com/2013/07/neocities/. May 8, 2016. Wired. December 12, 2021.
  5. Web site: Drake. Kyle. May 23, 2013. I want to make another Geocities. Free web hosting, static HTML only, 10MB limit, anonymous, uncensored.. live. December 29, 2020. Twitter. December 29, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201229162713/https://twitter.com/kyledrake/status/337706291801763841.
  6. Web site: We are rate limiting the FCC to dialup modem speeds until they pay us for bandwidth. May 8, 2014. December 29, 2020. December 29, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201229163121/https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2014/05/08/fcc-rate-limit.html. live.
  7. Web site: Drake. Kyle. May 9, 2014. The "fast lane" to internet civil war. live. December 29, 2020. The Neocities Blog. July 25, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210725181642/https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2014/05/09/internet-civil-war.html.
  8. Web site: Young Turks - FCC Gets A Taste Of Own Medicine. YouTube. February 4, 2020. December 29, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201229162648/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXRdpwVSCa8. live.
  9. Web site: February 4, 2015. We have removed the FCC rate limit. live. December 29, 2020. The Neocities Blog. June 21, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210621134914/https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2015/02/04/removed-fcc-rate-limit.html.
  10. News: Koebler. Jason. October 26, 2015. There's An Entire Conference Dedicated to Geocities-Style Websites. Motherboard. Vice Media. December 12, 2021. December 13, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211213000022/https://www.vice.com/en/article/3daznj/theres-an-entire-conference-dedicated-to-geocities-style-websites. live.
  11. News: Dewey. Caitlin. November 10, 2015. The counterintuitive, GIF-tastic plan to redeem the modern Internet. en-US. The Washington Post. 2021-12-12. 0190-8286. October 18, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211018060627/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/11/10/the-counterintuitive-gif-tastic-plan-to-redeem-the-modern-internet/. live.
  12. News: Valens. Ana. August 8, 2019. The best web hosting services for sex workers and adult artists. The Daily Dot. December 12, 2021. December 13, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211213000031/https://www.dailydot.com/irl/best-web-hosting-sex-workers-adult-creators-nsfw-content/. live.
  13. Web site: Neocities - Allowed File Types . n.d. . Neocities . July 21, 2022 . June 26, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220626235606/https://neocities.org/site_files/allowed_types . live .

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