For this to be 1999-era journaling, it would need:
- To be written in Perl
- To support .php, .pl, & .cgi in the user's /cgi-bin/
- To host about 10000 accounts per physical machine
- To use FTP, or a CGI form, for remote file management
- To use HTML 4.01/XHTML
- What's CSS?
- What's Twitter?
- Features: A user profile/bio! User comments! Subscriptions! Communities!
- Up to 10 megabytes of FREE storage
- Free add-ons like a hit counter and a feedback submission e-mail form
- One free e-mail address and five free e-mail aliases
- EXTRAS: Virtual host name and domain name support, up to 5 e-mail addresses &
20 e-mail aliases, up to 1000* megabytes of storage, and No Advertising Banners!!!
* actual space may vary based on how badly we over-committed storage
Just HTML and your own assets. No node.js hosting, no JSON+XML backend storage (that we can see), no sweat.
Granted, Neocities isn't built on 1999-era technology either, but I think it better captures the aesthetic of "web sandbox that i get to play with in my own webspace" a bit closer than this.
Actually CSS 1 is quite old but support wasn't good even in IE4/Netscape 4. IE5 in 2000 was the first browser with almost complete support and that was one of the reasons for it wiped out Netscape.
