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  • wandering the depths of the living internet

    From foodbark to All on Mon Apr 6 00:00:00 2026
    Wandering the Depths of the Living Internet

    some hackers i know from colorado are organizing a conference this may in carolina beach, north carolina called naclcon (said out loud as salt-con).
    it is going to be a look back to the early days of hacking and the internet with speakers like lee felsenstein of silicon valley's homebrew computer
    club and chris wysopla from boston's L0pht heavy industries.

    ANSI art: wandering-the-depths-of-the-living-internet-1



    NaClCon May 31st - June 2nd

    the timing of this conference in my life feels right so i am volunteering. i have spent the last couple of years getting back to my own roots as a wardialing 90s netizen. i have been building websites again, and breaking websites again, and blogging, and spending countless hours in a terminal. i feel like my own return to tipasa moment has come and has pulled me deeper
    into those living corners of the internet where bulletin board systems and
    the personal web pages still reside.

    my jumping off point for a lot of this is r/bbs, which has led me to ssh
    into jellyshell.dev and tavrn.sh, and to hang out with the punkyrooster at
    the dead internet society, and to chat casually with strangers in and about
    the small quiet pockets of world wide web that are ignored by the algorithm.

    it also has me spending more time on neocities.org which is wonderful. there are so many personal websites there that are both very modern and over the
    top retro. ransei's page, for instance, which feels like visiting stardew valley on a quiet summer night, with trailing star cursors and bright pixel blocks everywhere. there are also full 90s throwback sites crowded with flashing "under construction signs" and dancing hamster gifs. i was a long
    time geocities user back in the day when i started blogging and first became foodbark, so i love that there is a non-profit rebirth of those weird little personal pages we all had before myspace showed up in 2003.

    ANSI art: wandering-the-depths-of-the-living-internet-2



    ransei's page on neocites.org

    the other thing that i have rediscovered in these retro/modern personal web pages is webrings. and so i joined one.

    the ring i joined is called the wander console and it wraps your page in a little iframe console with some navigation bars that take you to other pages
    in the ring. of course i had to create a specific .htaccess file with a
    relaxed content security policy specifically to allow for wander, because letting your page be wrapped inside someone else's page is not exactly the
    most security forward move. most of the pages in the ring are static
    personal websites though so there there really isn't much risk of cross-site scripting, or clickjacking, or session hijacking, since most of these pages don't have session tokens to steal, or clicks to jack, or scripts to cross. regardless, i just think it is neat.

    ANSI art: wandering-the-depths-of-the-living-internet-3



    personal web pages: i just think they are neat!
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    https://foodbark.io/posts/wandering-the-depths-of-the-living-internet/