Können wir das Alter von Webseiten abschätzen, wenn uns nur ein Crawl zur Verfügung steht?

Diese Frage hat Ira Kokoshko und Robert Jäschke beschäftigt – und sie haben dazu den Ancient GeoCities Datensatz auf der Web Science 2026 in Braunschweig vorgestellt. Wie gut ein LLM bei der Schätzung des Alters von Webseiten performt, könnt ihr im Paper nachlesen:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3795766.3799783

#GeoCities #WebScience #WebArchiving

https://overland.org.au/2026/06/we-were-all-workers-on-geocities/

https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/news/92086-the-internet-is-worse-than-it-used-to-be.-how-did-we-get-here--and-can-we-go-back%3F

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/25/food-delivery-companies-australian-union-drivers-minimum-pay

#enshittification #geocities #techworkers

Started my evening looking up gardening tips. Got sidetracked and spent an hour engrossed in this article by Olia Lialina from 2020 concerning personal webpages and the ongoing history the World Wide Web: https://interfacecritique.net/book/olia-lialina-from-my-to-me/

#olialialina #indieweb #geocities #oldweb #worldwideweb #internethistory

Inspired by the way that Nekoweb's editor 'Nekode' works, I came up with a low-effort way to let my eldest get started with HTML and CSS editing, right from her browser, with the results selfhosted directly from the household NAS.
Read more: https://danq.me/2026/05/22/selfhosted-static-site-editor/

#article #caddy #css #geocities #hosting #html #indieweb #nas #smolweb #textEditors #webDesign #webDevelopment

Create a 90s GeoCities style website in seconds (Python)

https://pypi.org/project/create-geocities-app/

#HackerNews #GeoCities #Python #WebDevelopment #RetroTech #CodingFun