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https://web.archive.org/web/19991006132018/http://www.richne...
It's profoundly terrible, but I'm still in web development, so there's that...
https://web.archive.org/web/19961030052323/http://www.bikewo...
Why all the Micro$oft hate? J++! Those were the days.
To be fair, I was 17 and fighting the man was the cool thing to do. :) I see you're a fan of Elm. Me too! I'm also slowly working on an Elm side project. Sadly, I don't think it'll ever get as much attention on HN as my 1999 website has over the past few hours.
I started writing a budgeting app but it's too much for a single person side project. I might release a early alpha version out there on Github and hope other people join in.
My personal site is nowhere near as funny as the e-commerce site that my dad and I started that was built off of his brick-and-mortar bicycle store chain. Dad edited the site with some horrible text editor. There was no shopping cart; you would email or fax your order form to us with your credit card on it. People still loved it and we were getting dozens of orders a day within a couple of weeks of launching. https:/…
I love it. I have an unreasonable amount of nostalgia for old websites like this. This is what the whole Web looked like back in the early days, before the usability and design gurus figured out the "best practices" and all sites started looking the same. It really was a wild new frontier. I'm not saying the Web was objectively better back then, but it sure was fun.
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> represents a period of time where average people used the open Web to publish Come on, you know publishing can’t work without a paywall or your adblocker turned off, everyone knows that.
Publishing can work without those things. What's not clear is that journalism can. It is expensive to groom primary sources and investigate stories. I'm quite happy that at least a few organisations seem to have figured out a model by which they can fund such things. Otherwise it would be very difficult for me to know anything true about the world outside my immediate friends and family.
TV journalism worked fine when it was local owned, 30 mins on up to 3 channels.
I miss this era of the Internet. It represents a period of time where average people used the open Web to publish , rather than post on a corporation's platform. Obviously there's been plenty of development since then that I would not give back, but people favoring publishing their own sites rather than posting on social media is not incompatible with those developments. That part didn't need to be lost.
I used to have a Geocities containing weird bad poetry I wrote when I was a teenager. I forgot about it, until years later I stumbled upon it again. I was embarrassed. I asked Yahoo to delete it. But I'd forgotten the password, and I'd used fake personal details (wrong date of birth) to create the account, and I couldn't remember what the fake info was, so they refused to delete it because I couldn't verify that I wa…
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I think MySpace ultimately represented the final form of the essentially unlimited customization of the early web. The terribleness of MySpace pages was, I believe, the catalyst that pushed the design trend in the opposite direction, resulting in the "standardized array of fields" as popularized by Facebook. That said, given the cyclical nature of design trends, I strongly suspect that we'll eventually start to see a…
I actually think Reddit nailed the balance for subreddits[1], even if it is a little more forum-ey than the social sites you mentioned. I understand that might change soon, which is a shame. [1] excepting /r/spackd--ks[2], as it always should be. [2] post.get_opposite("R.I.P.")