Basic Guide To The Personal Web
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
- -- Chapters --
0:00 - Introduction
6:21 - Websites
9:24 - Blogging
11:10 - RSS
16:21 - Tools/Communities
21:18 - Conclusion
- Fair Use & Copyright Info -
This is video was made to help educate people on how to get started with the personal web. All music is non copyrighted.
This video should fall under the fair use section of teaching, commentary and criticism. If you have a problem with a particular clip or song I can quickly replace your short clip within RUclips’s online editor studio
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- Music -
Aries Beats - Sppoky Space Wave
Three Chain Links - Happiest Days
Jahzzar - Stars
EVA - It Still Hurts
Mattie Pride - Changing The Times
AIRGLOW - Electrifying Landscape
Aries Beats - Freestyler
Hello everyone,
It's been a while and I've learned a lot since making this video. I'm going to be more active now.
Firstly,
1. Here is the link to the map: psychcool.org/links/Personal%20Web%20Map.pdf
2. Here is the link for the guide: psychcool.org/links/BuildingAPersonalWebsiteGuide.pdf
If you are building a site from stratch for the first time then it's reccomended that
you use a template (sadgrl's template): goblin-heart.net/sadgrl/projects/layout-builder/
I am not posting links to other people's sites due to respect for them.
Secondly,
There is a lot of terminology that has sprung from online communities over
the years... Personal Web, Yesterweb, IndieWeb, Web Revival, Small Web,
Cozy Web. All having slight differences and similarities.
This video was generally made for people who want to get into making websites,
instead of being on social media apps. That's it.
Thirdly,
I'll try my best to update/correct information, but video formats become a pain in the arse since everything gets outdated and you learn better information
Thanks for all the comments, I appreciate the responses and feedback!
- Psychcool
Super nice video, I made a neocities page about a year ago but forgot about it. Really wanna get back into it again, with completely dumping every social media site and stupid terrible forced chat apps like Discord recently. Very much appreciate it.
ur awesome dude. keep it rollin 🔥
whats the mindmapping tool u used?
*edit: mindnode = apples walled garden only? 😢
where can i get that synthwave theme you found for visual studio at 17:27?
write a companion blog post for this video! then you can update it as you learn :3
I saw Policically Non-Binary used a good portion of this video @Psychcool - Thought I was going crazy
As someone who was born in the early 2000’s this is so exciting to me because I grew up hearing about things like blogs and MySpace and even old-school tumblr and Reddit and I thought it was so cool and I couldn’t wait to grow up and get in on it too, only to grow up to find that culture very much dead and replaced with hellish corporatized social media, which I don’t like as I was not allowed to have growing up so it just feels alien to me but I’m so happy to find that the internet of my childhood still exists somewhere!!!!
It was very different man. Especially the forums. People helped each other and shared information without selling courses. People made weird little sites for weird stuff they were in to.
@@jerbear7952 How sad is it to find the answer to a problem you're having and it's on a forum and then the link is to a site that's been dead for 10 years.
Same, born around 2000's feels like living on the edge of the golden era
@@karatra4044 to be fair, i was born in 1985 and I feel the same but about my working life and not just the internet.
same dude
I like the idea of kids growing up today rejecting the entire idea of blindly using modern social media to have an online presence. To learn and have fun with the creative challenge of building your own wildly customizable website.
im one of these kids. imagine it as the new wave of punk, literal cyberpunk. We have our own new music, websites, and ways to express what we want online in the ways the people in the past did.
Imagine watching a guide on how to build a personal website in 2024. Kinda crazy that this stuff got forgotten over time and replaced by apps and social Media spaces.
I absolutely adored this. I program web applications and servers all day every day. It sucks the life out of the art sometimes. This really brought me back to the reason I fell in love with the internet. It’s a craft. It’s an art. It’s an expression of the digital self. Great video.
"go buy a domain name, its $5"
*proceeds to show a domain listed for $56k*
That's to be expected. An unused domain really does cost 5 to 10 bucks. But once you use it, it easily goes into the thousands. Remember: Every domain has only one owner. So when you want a used one, you must buy from the original owner. The price listed is just an estimate from the provider, on how expensive this may be. But that assumes the owner is willing to sell the domain. If they don't want to sell, you will probably never get that domain.
I remember when it was easy to get free domains.
Price vary for each domain extension, and if you see prices that are abnormally high it usually means that someone already bought it and is reselling it (domain squatting)
@@folksurvivalfree? How would one have done that?
@@tech6hutch By registering it.
Nothing has made me feel older than the term "traditional social media"
Thank you for talking about this stuff, I hope it will help kids who were our age at that time find out how much fun the internet used to be
I'm 18, and I feel a lot of anemoia for the early Internet, before blandly designed social media sites took over. I've made my own sites on GitHub Pages, and it's been really fun to express myself on such a high level of granularity.
it was called ✨ SOCIAL NETWORKING ✨
@@jaguar3217 you can't do this to me
I do not know how RUclips recommended this to me with it being this small but goddam I’m grateful for it because I love this
I've missed the personality of the early web so much. I feel like you've given a great jumping point to learn more, make my own site, and reconnect with the wonders of a decentralized web.
Great video, but as a tip, you can do entirely without the flashing pictures, its an outdated editing technique exactly because it's uncomfortable.
You can still make your visual point by showing images spaced .4 or .5 seconds each, or show overlapping pictures in a wider space like a collage spaced .2 or .3 seconds each.
this...
yes it is annoying to not be able to see any frame even by pausing because its too quikk
I like the style personally because I've seen video where the images flash slower (Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows' Pâro comes to mind), and my brain gets distracted by the text in the images instead of on what the narrator is saying.
Not to mention after reading a handful of the images shown in this video, I have a feeling I would have a mental breakdown from sheer overexposure to the level of hate and toxicity presented.
I don't mind not being able to read them, but using dark mode or inverting the black and white would go a long way to avoiding the flashbang feeling.
i agree on this. love this video but that was just not it for me
For real, just gives me a headache
I've been keeping a personal website for a few years now, but have really only been using it as a programming blog and portfolio that I can show to potential employers (which has still been super valuable, although limited). Seeing this video and a few others about Web 1.0 is inspiring me to expand it more - perhaps blogging more often and about a wider berth of subjects.
Thanks too for talking about RSS! I've never really used it, but now that I've seen it in action, I'll be setting up a feed.
You inspired me to make an account on neocities and maybe start something there finally. I've got the git repo set up now. Now I just gotta learn html/css...
Forgive me if you have already gone through this (if you have, then disregard this), but Neocities has a tutorial hosted by their mascot: Penelope the Cat. Kitty will show you the bare basics of HTML and CSS coding. SadGirl also has a "Responsive Design" website layout builder for a simple web page layout that works in mobile and full browsers.
how u goin?
Been exploring some stuff, and I feel kind of reborn. It's like reading nothing but corporate rags for years and then picking up a bunch of zines. Big hits, big misses, some authentic, some trying too hard, but all the more sincere in all 4 outcomes.
Glad to see more people talking about the personal web
Great vid!
I had this thought lingering in my mind for weeks at this point! I needed a way to speak my thoughts off while enjoying doing that, since no one in my life really has enough space for whatever I have to say (which is out of their control, people have lives).
This feels like the right way for me!
I love this. I don't want to be confined to a social media platform anymore. I can just promote my website on social media.
I can't tell you how much I miss forums. It felt so much more personal and way better structured in a way my brain craves. But now it seems even if you do find a forum on a topic you like, it's a just a graveyard. Thank you for all the website recommendations and tips!
Thank you for this video. I'm now fairly certain the YT recommendation algorithm is processing my comments for this to have shown up when it did, but regardless, this is helpful information.
Very informative. I always loved the aesthetic and concept behind personal websites and thought they were only a things in the 90's and early 2000's. You must have put alot of work in creating this map, so thank you ! ! ! !
This video is like a time travel to 20 years ago. Great stuff!
I've been pretty despondent about the web lately. I quit Reddit and Twitter. I only have Facebook to keep in touch with older family and Instagram for younger family. I miss the days of forums and personal blogs. This video really struck a nerve. Thanks so much!
Everything about this video was just super nice. Especially you and the huge nostalgia I felt about recognising the look and feeling of the internet from my childhood.
You're doing good work by creating videos like this. It's ironic that the RUclips algorithm brought me here but for i'm very happy it did! Thank you for creating the map and guide on your website as well.
Oh my god this is so cool thank you for sharing this on RUclips. People, share about this with your friends, they might be interested. We need this kind of thing.
I’d love to put more effort into this, but everything web-related seems to be engineered to be as high-maintenance as possible. I thought a few years ago that going with a static site builder would be a sure-fire way to make something that will last. Boy was I wrong. The theme I used has undergone several major restructurings (requiring me to completely re-do all of my customizations every time), and now they’ve even completely moved away from Hugo to something else. Just because I want to update the foundation of my site to fix some annoying bugs, I get to essentially completely re-structure it from scratch every time, taking a “quick update” and turning it into multiple days of work I don’t want to do. These Javascript developers apparently have nothing better to do than reinvent the wheel every 3 minutes, and I’m so tired of dealing with all the churn that causes, no matter how you try to use web stuff.
preach!
Excellent, its great that you crafted this for an intermediate user like me. Social media's lowest common denominator slop is getting really old.
This video is so good. Among all the reasons why I loved building a personal website, you helped me realize exactly what it was: it's part of who I am. My website is almost like an extension of myself. I want to thank you so much for making this video and helping me to realize this. Definitely got a like and a sub from me!
This is perfect, I remember making a personal website when I was a little kid but now the internet just…sucks
I’m glad to see this exists, I’m going down this rabbit hole lol
i also had dozens of personal websites as a kid lol
I loved this so much and it has inspired me! I also respect that at first I found some bits a bit dogmatic, but then I realised that's kinda the point - vive la opinions!
wow this channel is so based.... so based... i am now tempted to finish my website, great job! i hope that you will grow
16:10 I disagree. For my blog, I use a framework called Jekyll, which converts Markdown to static HTML using a defined template, and even automatically manages the RSS feed for you. I'd argue it's even less complicated.
thanks, I found zonelet really easy to work with and add. I've been looking for something similar for a while. I'll come back to this for finding personal web communities and tools again. thanks for the work in sharing
This is great! Lots of excellent info here!
I have been working the last few years to lean on my personal website for more of my outreach and do make an RSS feed from it. I love the resources you've provided, especially about webrings! Thans for making this
I recently got more involved in FOSS programs and RSS, this video was really informative and insightful!
Bro not even half way throught the video. YOU'RE ONE OF THE BESTTT DUDEEEEE!!!!!!! Just amazing!! I've recently made my own website and didn't know what to add or do and damn!!! Thank you fella :D
Nice video! Personal websites are truly refreshing to read and create compared to the fragmented, sporadic, and polluted stream of information one gets on social media.
What a video! I love it!
Glad to see you're still improving and checking out this post! I'm sure someone's pointed this out, but TTL is "time-to-live" which is (in minutes) how long the feed should stay cached before attempting to get an update. You generally want this to be not too crazy, as its the longest amount of time that someone can wait before they're notified or get your updated blog posts (worst case being someone refreshes right before you update your RSS feed)
I tend to set my TTL at double my update speed, so that if I update once a day, I'd set the TTL to make readers check in twice per day, so that its a maximum of a 12 hour delay. But you could totally do more if the traffic isn't an issue!
The personal web seems cool and all but a lot of the things you mentioned just don't make sense to me.
"Social media has echo chambers" forums have echo chambers as well. Oftentimes even more extreme ones because of the lack of unbiased moderation.
"Propaganda is spread on social media" what stops somebody from spreading propaganda through the personal web? If somebody wants to propagandise they will do it. Just because personal websites are more honest does not mean they are more factual.
I'm confused why you kept bringing up these two points in this video.
Great video! Loved the guide on making Blog posts, will come back to that for my own website.
Glad to see u on this side of the web with such a great overview! Many great tips!
I've been wanting to dig into this for a while now, and this video was good at segmenting the different parts of the personal, decentralized web. Time to get coding.
thank you so much
i knew about all of these things but i needed the impetus to realise that maintaining these things does lead to a better internet
only when you described the rss logo as an orange wi-fi thing i realised that this isn't for me, or not just for me, it's for people that missed the train on all these things and they aren't in on the past 20-30 years of internet tech
thank you so much
"...There's no teacher out there quite like experience." What a wonderful quote!
As a "90s kid" I am here for the Geocities rebirth
Spot on, this has been a problem for a long time and AI is only acceperating the shit storm. Quite unbelievable it has come to this, going completely full circle, and lots of people are totally unaware. Awesome video 👍
for the past couple of months I've been looking for the old internet lol. I was born in 94 but I had a computer early and was online during the AOL days. I clearly remember forum websites and regular non application websites that dominated the internet and I thought it was gone for good. I'm so happy that its been there all along and I'm all aboard the nostalgia train... TOOOT TOOOOT.
when programming i really like to block resources from big corporations (tutorial point, w3 school) and search for personal developers blogs. They are much more cozy and informative
This is the internet I came up with. Loved it. Cool video
could you please share the roadmap you were using?
Very interesting! Love the aesthetics of early 2000s personal websites.
This video is golden.
Surprised you don’t have more subs. This vid and others are extremely high quality. Keep it up and you’ll be big!!
i feel like i knew this when i was younger, but they tried so hard to make us forget this.
thanks for the inspiration.
Having your own wrbsite is pretty cool
i love the personal web so much, i have a spacehey page and im currently writing my personal web page in html and css! im working on making art for it too alongside my partner :)
is spacehey alive? ive been thinking about making one for a minute, but I've been conditioned to assume all nonconventional social medias are just breeding grounds for weirdos (and not the good kind)
Love this video!
Recommend putting links to the various resources in the description though, be much easier for people to check them out that way.
Did you know how much I've learnt from your vid ❤
Keep this up
This video is amazing and underrated ❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤
This is such good content, wow 🤯
Liking that video. But why against Markdown? It's like even simpler than HTML.
I get the fact that you will need to transform it to HTML, but mostly tools are doing it for you without a big trouble.
I'm going to go make my own website!
Could you add the mentioned stuff in the description too?
Let Us start with Marginalia and that other recomendation.
Stay social, the personal way.
You're underrated!
Im just surprised at how many completely insufferable ppl u have screenshots of LMAO
this channel is underrated
Thanks for the inspiration ❤ also, this is a video that every single person using the internet must watch!!! THIS is the absolute best video in all of RUclips. THIS video is what your kids should be watching, a video that inspires you to stop wasting your precious time and do something productive. Btw in my opinion, everyone should learn HTML/css/js and host their websites using a cheap service like hostinger. Thank you, forr changing my life ❤
i loved your video
thank you.
this is a great video, you get my approval :3
really very good video thank you :3
I love this video so much, I've been learning about the personal web lately and I'm so intrigued. I really wish you linked the websites that you used as visual examples, and especially some of the "getting started resources" ones, just to get people clicking.
The thing is you could find em if you go down the rabbit hole he showed you.
@@CB256 I don’t think you understand lol, I was saying he could’ve included links. People are lazy and won’t just google something they can’t immediately find. If he provided a link people could just click and keep clicking from there
@@sophbear4259 ig its meant to be like tht mate,btw i used searx nd got his pdf lol...maybe he is tryin to prevent lazy people from accessing those sites loll
@@sophbear4259 dont use google lol
sick video thanks so much
As a tech person I admire DIY solutions. Recently built my first website and despite doing everything SEO it still doesn't show up on corporate big brother's search engine. Will fix this but in the meantime, small/personal web sounds like a neat world to explore
Thank you
woah, my website appeared in a video... thank you!
seeing one of my webpages gave me a jumpscare! lol
i can tell which webrings you clicked around to find examples.
nice video :^)
Very cool
Im browsing your videos and im surprised you have so few followers, i really enjoyed this though!
i love the idea and ive been wanting to do the same thing but i get overwhelmed with stuff and give up
8:27 This is what I'm doing right now. Since I'm running a user generated content website.
Please back up your progress site and your database. Use at least 2 or 3 portable hard drives or flash drives. This is a very important and huge recommended.
Personally, I want my personal website to my permanent online home someday.
same, im excited to work more on mine :)
manually updating an RSS feed? Whooo doggy that's a bold move there cotton. Maybe that's me personally but I'd just teach myself python enough to write a script that does it for me. Run the script. fill in the information and then plop it into the XML file. It may not seem different but it feels different to me.
cool video, but why are you actively trying to destroy my eyes with the fast shifting images?
good vid
Hey that’s a thumbnail of my page in 0:42 lol that’s wild
Detroit's famous attorney Joumana was in the flashing pictures segment between 0:25 - 0:26.
Platinum blonde woman with very dark lipstick. We cannot escape her watchful eye! SHE IS ALWAYS LOOKING OUT FOR YOUR RIGHTS.
With a little bit of python scripting knowledge you probably could make a script to automate and customize the RSS xml build process
Most hosts allow php scripts - depending on what software you’re using for your blog, you can just ask chatGPT to provide you a php script that will update your RSS feed for you.
Amen!
Had no idea it was a movement or had a name, been doing this forever lol
I haven't wayched the video yet but your video inspires me to make my kwn website lol. Currently learning HTML by bits and bit...also currently i'm spamming the font family and font size option for now because i'm too lazy to figure out how to put a universal one script one lol
Can you please make a part 2 to this.
The logo you use for WeeChat is not the WeeChat logo, but rather a WeChat logo, i.e. one for a Chinese messaging app.
Not putting links in the description is criminal
Idk if this will get picked up as spam so I’ll reply to this with the actual link. The map is on his neocities site under the Projects > Social Networks page. Same username.
RSS feeds are a term I've not heard for years.
take a shot every time u say garbage :p nice video though ^•^ it's good to get this info out the for people
Can you please provide me with the blog post shown in the video titled ‘The princess (or beauty) of Xiaohe. I really want to read it.
i google searched "Zonelets the princess of xiaohe" and found it, the wikipedia pages about those mummies are also great
Forums can be good but a lot of forums still suffer from a lot of the issues a lot of these modern day apps have.
damn. I used to engage with ALL of this stuff as a kid like 9-10 years old. Then I went to Tumblr and Twitter and let my skills die. I gotta come back to the personal web