My goal with Neocities is to help bring back the creativity and free expression to the world wide web that made it great. I need your help.
+Neocities is bringing back the creativity and free expression that made the web great.
- I am tired of living in an online world where people are isolated from each other in - boring, spied-on gated communities, and are given generic templates which define what people are - supposed to know about each other. It's time we took back our personalities from these sterilized, lifeless, + We are tired of living in an online world where people are isolated from each other in + boring social networks, generic templates which define what people are + supposed to know or communicate with each other. It's time we took back our personalities from these sterilized, lifeless, monetized, monitored entities and let our creativity flourish again.
- That's where Neocities comes in. I want to provide a canvas for people to make any web site they want. + That's where Neocities comes in. We provide a canvas for people to make any web site they want. Whether it be a web site about something they're good at, something they love, something they hate, or - their own custom "Profile" where they can introduce themselves in a way that actually matters to them. + their own custom "Profile" where they can introduce themselves in a way that actually matters to them. + And we can do this without selling out to the marketing industry.
- It's a big project (to make small sites), and I have a lot of work to do. - But I can't do it without your help. + It's a big project (to make small sites), and we have a lot of work to do. + .
- The technology has become affordable enough where we can provide this creative space without requiring a business - plan that involves selling people out to the marketing industry. But it still costs money, especially since server - demand is so high right now. And there are some possible surprise costs I haven't figured out yet (bandwidth estimates are difficult). - But if Neocities can get enough donations, Neocities can survive! - Together, we can prevent - what happened to GeoCities from happening again. + But we can't do it without you. Help keep this idea alive by donating! $100, $20, $5, a + free round of beers at your pub, speaking invites so we can spread the word, free server hosting.
- Our creativity is too important to be commercialized. Help keep this idea alive by donating! $100, $20, $5, a - free round of beers at your pub, speaking invites so we can spread the word, free server hosting, anything helps. Thank you! + Neocities is just getting started, and we've got a lot of amazing things in store. Thanks for believing in us. We'll try very hard to not let you down. +
++ Love, +
++ -Kyle +
++ PS: What are you waiting for? Go make your web site!