What do you think of "webcore/cybercore"?

[toribytez]

TBH as a subscriber to the webcore movement, it's nice to see younger generations learn about pre-2000s culture and participate in the web revival. Even though I'm an early 2000s kid, I have extremely vague memories of using the internet back in 2009 (I think), so I couldn't relate to anybody who has better memories of the net aside from the usual browser games, Club Penguins, and Poptropicas. But both "cybercore" and "webcore" have been misused as catch-all umbrella terms (looking at you Roblox) for anything that has a semblance of 2000s inspiration.

But thanks to this movement I wouldn't even start learning HTML/CSS. I also do love how pre-2010s tech worked and the pre-Win 8.1 UI designs.

[Darmodej]

tbh i dont care super much about what goes on in the internet further than 2 bacon degrees from me but its definitely good in the long run
gotta show the kids there's an outside to the plato's cave

[xwindows]

When it is in a web page form, I do not call such thing "webcore"; I call it "vernacular web", which is a term coined by Olia Lialina who researched into GeoCities and 90s-2000s personal web scene. This term has been existing back as far as 2005.

But if we were strictly speaking of applying such aesthetics to non-webpage media... well, have at it.

For me however, even that I am old enough to actually made GeoCities site back its heyday; the aspect of "retro" web that I'm personally invested into isn't the vernacular web aesthetics, but rather the technical side of it. While I could see many people in web revival movement expending their creativity in using modern technology to create sites with old vernacular web aesthetics; I do the opposite, by coding modern designs (1) using technologies of 1990s to 2000s-- in my effort to ensure information longevity. (2)


(1) More precisely: off-modern mid-2010s designs.

(2) Current web technologies are suffering scope creep so extreme with moving-goalpost shifting so fast that it is considered a fool's errand to actually make a new browser from scratch that'd implement all of them in usable+compatible manner; so I swear off them and stick to properly-standardized (long-standing, with proper version number) specifications like HTML 4.01 (circa 1999; also known as ISO 15445:2000), CSS 2.0 (circa 1998), and CSS 2.1 (circa 2011), to make sure that people in the future can reliably reimplement a software to read what I make today.

[Nova]

So on everyone.melonland.net/webcore, we can try it out! Add some elements to the page, and let's see if we can capture the elusive "webcore" with a big maximalist collage! 

I added my own little touch to it.
Y'all can thank me for the dancing GIR gif on the "b" lmao