Originally published at: Straw.page is an "extremely simple website builder" with a HTML-brutalism vibe | Boing Boing
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I’m delighted to announce that Their Jankiness GeoCities, Enlightened Host of Cybernetic Nirvana, has descended to the Earthly Internet once again. Blessed day!
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wouldn’t say these are brutalist, more like brutal.
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Won’t render correctly without a ton of javascript. Falls very far short of “brutalist,” since brutalism prohibits javascript that isn’t 100% necessary to the page’s core function. It also falls short of “just a God-damned functional webpage” because the page is not even minimally readable without javascript. I grade it as “F – total crap.”
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Do you automatically get “Tom” as a friend on this version of MySpace too?
ha, that’s what they should call it, MySpace 2.0
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wow, the dedication to the aesthetic is amazing
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I just typed myspace.com into my browser address bar, and a website appeared. I have no real idea what it was though.
Some kind of celebrity tittle-tattle thing maybe?
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totally agree… website should be super functional, every item line of code intentional. this is pretty brutalist. Out Loud—July 2013—The Appendix
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I think you’re too old-fashioned haha
Needs more flaming torches, rotating hearts, and maybe a BLINK tag.
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Nope, no rotating hearts, sorry.
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Ooo! Spinny skulls!
Can we include the dancing baby?
Woah there! That file was massive, and I was serving it out through a 33k modem line. Do you want to break the Internet? (Okay, it wasn’t the Internet, just a weirdly cobbled BBS.)
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I miss my Geocities page.
Thank you for posting this, this is exactly the sort of thing I need for the stupid project I’m working on.
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Good luck with that stupid project, hope it goes well! 
There was another website builder/host that was doing this old school style recently. Wasn’t phone specific, was very geocities. I’ve lost my bookmark, does anyone remember it?
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