neocities is really one of the best things on the web, embodying so much of the spirit of what it means to use hypertext
makes me think if the solution to leaving web is to 'do a gemini' but for HTML--deliberately designing a protocol that is incompatible with the worst parts of HTML.
it's not altogether that difficult--just look at the simplicity of the gemini RFC
just wondering about it--from memory, most of the coding back during the geocities/myspace era was probably just copying and pasting little snippets here and there
i suppose the methodical way would be to step through the HTML5 standard and removing every element that contradicts our requirements
anyway, food for thought...