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You are the target audience for https://wiby.me - the search engine for old school websites
I clicked "Surprise Me" and got this creepy page: http://idiom.com/~beverly/hans_resume.html
Found him years ago via the Visible Barbie project, http://www.trygve.com/visible_barbie.html
He hasn't updated his blog in years, but for years I would look forward to his random posts since it would remind me of the mid/late 90s when I was just getting online, reading AOL's documentation on how to write HTML.
On a somewhat related note, be interested to hear if others have kept their old source code. I started coding on a ZX Spectrum, moved to QBasic on a 286 and then later to Turbo Pascal. I remember all my TP code being on a single 1.44mb disk which somehow is now in GDrive, the earliest is from '99. Every now and again, I enjoy firing up some of those old programs or looking at the source code and handmade bitmaps. I t…
https://github.com/JamesSkemp/HyperJumpNet-Sites
https://github.com/JamesSkemp/ReallyOldCrap
EDIT: If anyone knows of good topics to add on these so that they can be viewed with other really old ones, I'd be interested.
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Tumblr themes still work like this. Tumblr is actually an almost-perfect natural experiment on the value of customization, because there are two views of any given blog post: a public-indexed static HTML view, that the post's author can theme with whatever HTML+CSS+JS they desire; and an RSS-reader-like "dashboard" view, with no theming at all. Polling Tumblr users on how they prefer to read pages—whether in the dash…
I think a lot more sites should follow Tumblr's lead here, but I fear Tumblr is going to be shut down within the next few years and it'll be the last platform to adopt this approach (at least for a long time).
This reminds me of my first Geocities website: a full repository of KoRn's lyrics to date. It's not that this didn't exist elsewhere on the internet (indeed it did, as of course I used these other sites as source material), but nowhere seemed to have the exact red-text-on-black-background look I was going for at the time. The most excruciating part of this memory is not that I worshipped a nu-metal band, but instead…
Had I understood the concept of saving web pages (or even copy and pasting text), I could have stored the stories I wanted to share as plaintext files, put them on a floppy disk, and then transferred them to the Laser 486 to print. The idea that the text could be transferred from one machine to the other didn't really register with me, so what I did instead was to read Zelda fanfic online, then rush upstairs to the other computer with enough of the story still fresh in my head and re-construct the stories as best I could from memory. Usually, I tried to imitate the style and structure of the original fanfiction, but sometimes I would inject my own personal style or intentionally change details in places where I felt like my own imagination could improve over what I recalled of the original story. The longer I did this, the more I found myself re-writing others' stories rather than aiming to simply reproduce them, sometimes to the point where my "imitation" could barely be distinguished as an attempt to copy.
I started writing fiction professionally in my 20's (which I'd consider to be a fairly young age), and I think a big part of what allowed me to go pro so young is that under the Malcolm Gladwell "10,000 hours of practice" model I ended up getting most of my practice in pretty early (at the time not even acting with the intention of practicing fiction writing), so perhaps my inability to copy and paste text was ultimately responsible for kicking off my career as a storyteller. In retrospect, re-writing fan fiction was the modern equivalent of apocrypha (non-canon stories) repeated and passed down through oral tradition.
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Any sample sites that are based on/use hearth? Is it like a normal http(s) protocol/type URL?
Yes, you can access it both over https (through the Eternum gateway) and through IPFS. Here's my personal site: https://www.eternum.io/ipfs/QmRCWYEYU2WvLJBbj54k5p1AFHZ2TefW...
There are only 214 million active sites and this number stop growing[1] In contrast there are 2 billion active FB user pages, and 65 million FB business pages and growing.[2]
[1] https://twitter.com/andrestaltz/status/969544747374260224/ph...
[2] https://expandedramblings.com/index.php/facebook-page-statis...
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Yes, you can access it both over https (through the Eternum gateway) and through IPFS. Here's my personal site: https://www.eternum.io/ipfs/QmRCWYEYU2WvLJBbj54k5p1AFHZ2TefW...
Everyone is telling us they only platform we ever need, and at same time they all closed platform with their own API and without open protocols like RSS(dead for every big company). There are only 214 million active sites and this number stop growing[1] In contrast there are 2 billion active FB user pages, and 65 million FB business pages and growing.[2] [1] https://twitter.com/andrestaltz/status/969544747374260224/p…
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Yup, Dreamweaver and Frontpage were very much a thing in that era. Plenty of WYSIWYG options existed.
You forgot hotdog professional. Hated how frontpage mangled the code!!
This reminds me of my first Geocities website: a full repository of KoRn's lyrics to date. It's not that this didn't exist elsewhere on the internet (indeed it did, as of course I used these other sites as source material), but nowhere seemed to have the exact red-text-on-black-background look I was going for at the time. The most excruciating part of this memory is not that I worshipped a nu-metal band, but instead…