I posted mine on the w3c's 20th anniversary in 2014 http://www.kevinmarks.com/myfirstwebsite.html
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#422Shameless plug:
I intentionally went in this direction when I made a website for my band. I think it's high time this aesthetic came back into fashion.
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#423I really, really wish I could find my old Geocities website. It was mostly just a bunch of jokes I found around the Internet, and it'd be interesting to see what kind of stuff I found funny back in 1999. It might be sitting on an old hard drive in my basement (I never dispose of them with other equipment, instead telling myself I will someday wipe them manually and/or drill through the platters).
> I never dispose of them with other equipment, instead telling myself I will someday wipe them manually and/or drill through the platters Don't do that! Hoard them to sell on eBay for hobby money later. There is a looming retrocomputing SCSI hard drive shortage. You can already get good prices for 50-pin SCSI drives. I don't know about ATA/IDE drives, but I imagine people trying to build "authentic" systems will dri…
They're all ATA or SATA. If anything, the looming shortage for those is like 20 years away, so...
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#424Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most who were just tinkering still posted to something like geocities, but I agree that spirit has been lost. What do they do in middle school / high school web development classes these days anyway? Kind of the appeal 20 years ago was that you could learn HTML pretty easily and whip up a simple personal website like this and have fun doing it. It didn't exactly "teach" much, at least in my experience, but it was ins…
geocities simply made it "free" to publish on the web I thought? As opposed to being a platform that enforced complex policies
Sure, but you still had to host their advertisements. I would consider it a platform, but I also wouldn't compare it to facebook.
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#425Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is something I've struggled with. When I think of introducing people to web development I think about how I got my start - creating a website to display pictures of my newborn daughter in 1997. Only, who would do such a thing these days? People would just post those to Facebook or Instagram. Creating a web app is too much too soon in my opinion. What is a good project that has relevance in 2018, but doesn't requ…
> Only, who would do such a thing these days? I would. The corporate sites you mention are cumbersome and detrimental. Yes, creating a web app is too much, and so is a project, in my opinion. A web document is all that might be needed: website
Isn't that overkill as well? Not sure on the current state of ftp support but I think firefox still allows ftp browsing. We had protocols and programs dedicated to sharing stuff like this before we put them behind commercial walls.
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#426Do miss the 90's internet.
I remember having no interest in programming yet be able to conjure up a quick fan webpage on angelfire using nothing but simple html and Microsoft Frontpage.
It became such a satisfying experience that I ended up creating a few more and even one dedicated to my girlfriend!
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#427Earlier quoted context omitted.
The need for old SCSI/IDE drives is being filled by SD/microSD/CF adapters for those connector types :)
Not for everyone. I know a few people that prefer to run real hard drives in their hardware, especially when they show at vintage computer exhibitions. These people go out of their way to get old ones for spare parts and to repair what they have. Adapters are the last resort when the drives they need can only be obtained for astronomical prices or not at all.
Oh yeah, for sure, I know there are many purists who want the legit original hardware. Just that many hobbyists who just want to run their favorite old computer(s) opt for the adapter as it's a lot easier to buy a bunch of SD cards, even if the adapters can be a bit pricy.