this post was submitted on 01 May 2026
354 points (100.0% liked)
Today I Learned
29576 readers
404 users here now
What did you learn today? Share it with us!
We learn something new every day. This is a community dedicated to informing each other and helping to spread knowledge.
The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:
Rules (interactive)
Rule 1- All posts must begin with TIL. Linking to a source of info is optional, but highly recommended as it helps to spark discussion.
** Posts must be about an actual fact that you have learned, but it doesn't matter if you learned it today. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.**
Rule 2- Your post subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.
Your post subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.
Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.
Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.
Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.
That's it.
Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.
Posts and comments which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.
Rule 6- Regarding non-TIL posts.
Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-TIL posts using the [META] tag on your post title.
Rule 7- You can't harass or disturb other members.
If you vocally harass or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.
Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.
For further explanation, clarification and feedback about this rule, you may follow this link.
Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.
Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.
Let everyone have their own content.
Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.
Unless included in our Whitelist for Bots, your bot will not be allowed to participate in this community. To have your bot whitelisted, please contact the moderators for a short review.
Partnered Communities
You can view our partnered communities list by following this link. To partner with our community and be included, you are free to message the moderators or comment on a pinned post.
Community Moderation
For inquiry on becoming a moderator of this community, you may comment on the pinned post of the time, or simply shoot a message to the current moderators.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
This has been my favourite part of the internet for the past few years since i discovered it.
For those interested, most people make their sites on Neocities, as mentioned by OP - though I personally prefer Nekoweb. Both are great places to get started for free though, you can't go wrong with either.
The basic HTML and CSS you'll need to know is quite simple and fun to learn, so even if you don't continue maintaining your site, I think it's a really good creative exercise.
If you do get involved in the community, it's a really fun way to get to know people, (whether like-minded or not so like-minded) and a great creative outlet!
My website isn't as fancy as some of the indie sites I've seen, but it's been a really fun thing to come back to on occasion and use as a creative outlet.
I'd love to see some other people here's sites!
I really like your site! What did you do to get the guestbook up and running?
I embedded a guestbook hosted by Atabook - it's hosted by the same people who own Nekoweb, but you don't need to use Nekoweb to use it :)
Cause every night I will save your lifeeeeee
And every night I will be with youuuu
Awesome! I imagine the resources to learn html and CSS are so much easier to find these days. I haven't done anything like that since Myspace.
Is there anywhere that people are exchanging tips and tricks for getting started? I'd rather not go to reddit (I saw that there was a subreddit when searching for these screenshots) unless I have to.
If you miss Myspace there is also https://spacehey.com/!
There's some nice indie-web oriented tutorials I've come across on YouTube, but I started with the classic copy pasting from w3schools :P It also helps to use inspect element in your browser on the sites you like, helps get a better idea on how things work.
I'm too young to know what things we're like in MySpace times but I can only imagine the resources have only gotten easier to find :)
OMG, I’d completely forgotten about guest books!