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Kyle Drake discusses what GeoCities was, why it failed, the technical and legal challenges of creating its spiritual successor Neocities, and how he's working to preserve and curate sites from the old web.

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Kyle is the creator of Neocities a free web hosting site that encourages people to build creative personal websites in the spirit of GeoCities. He's currently working on restorativland where people interested in the history of the web can discover websites originally hosted at places like GeoCities and Myspace Music.

Kyle Drake

Projects

Other Links

• Yahoo! Geocities - Wikipedia page
• What is BGP?
• What is Anycast?
• Vultr (Neocities hosting provider)

Timestamps

• [00:00:50] What GeoCities was
• [00:06:45] Why the old web failed
• [00:15:06] Reasons to create Neocities
• [00:21:04] Fighting phishing, spam, and DMCA takedowns
• [00:27:17] Purchasing an IPv4 address block and building an Anycast CDN
• [00:43:28] Why create your own CDN? (Takedown requests come directly to you, reduced chances of hosting provider shutting you down)
• [00:51:09] The costs of running a CDN ($130 a month)