Nick on Neocities

While I had not really pieced together all the thoughts, in recent years I have been rethinking how I engaged online. Once I was a relatively prolific user of Twitter and Facebook, today my only social media account is on LinkedIn. Over the past 25+ years I have run websites and owned domain names, but somehow in recent times the production of them has felt both impersonal and increasingly more complicated to manage. The alternative to this complication has been use of AI in web design, which while impressive is not as precise as I'd like. Perhaps the final factor is a desire to be less reliant on 'big tech', this has led me to make more use of alternative tech options. I do have a nostalgia for the early days of the mass participation internet, one of component of that was building websites on the long defunct Geocities. And so, here I am, on Neocities to experiment a bit. To see whether my recollection of the old web (no cheeky comments please) is as good as I remember and if in 2026, it still offers a way to do the simple thing the internet is supposed to do, allow me to talk to the world, rather than just be a 24/7 consumer.

In the early days, there will be some broken links and wonky design. please bear with me.

Welcome to my new 'old' website!
Nicolas Webb