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Google is killing websites
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We desperately need more small static websites that are mostly just some text and a few pictures.
Absolutely. You can still make some pretty beautiful looking static websites using well-crafted HTML and CSS instead of making the user download and execute 10 MB of JavaScript bullshit.
Not exactly the same thing, but I listened to a really interesting podcast featuring the founder of Neocities who went into great detail about how he was able to save massively on infrastructure costs by not just blindly tossing everything onto AWS or Azure (link below, transcript included):
https://www.softwaresessions.com/episodes/bringing-geocities-back-with-kyle-drake/
Had no idea people have been trying to bring geocities back under a different name. That's awesome. Bring back the old web!