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Re: 1999.io: Blogging like it's 1999

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Post by jimjimjim » Wed, Jun 08, 2016, 9:48 PM UTC

sounded interesting, until I selected 'view page source' on one of the pages and saw a screen full of .js

not really very 1999ish.

Re: 1999.io: Blogging like it's 1999

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Post by peterwwillis » Wed, Jun 08, 2016, 9:49 PM UTC

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

Re: 1999.io: Blogging like it's 1999

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Post by adzm » Wed, Jun 08, 2016, 9:50 PM UTC

1999? XML is our savior! The future of the web will be interconnected SOAP services! It's the year of the Linux desktop! Itanium will revolutionize software if someone would just make a sufficiently smart compiler!

Re: 1999.io: Blogging like it's 1999

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Post by davewiner » Wed, Jun 08, 2016, 9:51 PM UTC

sharkjacobs wrote: post #6

When I was blogging in 1999 it involved appending each new blog entry to the top of the html page which went in the content frame. And I don't think I'd heard of "blogging" yet.

That was the year we did the first browser-based blogging software. It's when Edit This Pager was invented. The first wave of bloggers. The name weblog. It basically came together in 1999.

Re: 1999.io: Blogging like it's 1999

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Post by davewiner » Wed, Jun 08, 2016, 9:52 PM UTC

airencracken wrote: post #5

If I have to enable javascript to view parts of your website at all, then it isn't anything like 1999.

To edit a blog you have to enable JavaScript because the blogging software is written in JS.

It would be possible to create a client that didn't, but that doesn't exist today.

Re: 1999.io: Blogging like it's 1999

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Post by davewiner » Wed, Jun 08, 2016, 9:53 PM UTC

peterwwillis wrote: post #12

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-o…

The technology is 2016, not 1999.

Re: 1999.io: Blogging like it's 1999

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Post by zeveb » Wed, Jun 08, 2016, 9:54 PM UTC

davewiner wrote: post #14

sharkjacobs wrote: post #6

When I was blogging in 1999 it involved appending each new blog entry to the top of the html page which went in the content frame. And I don't think I'd heard of "blogging" yet.

That was the year we did the first browser-based blogging software. It's when Edit This Pager was invented. The first wave of bloggers. The name weblog. It basically came together in 1999.

I served my first webpages via Userland Frontier — thanks for building such a neat product all that long ago!

Re: 1999.io: Blogging like it's 1999

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Post by egeozcan » Wed, Jun 08, 2016, 9:54 PM UTC

Zikes wrote: post #7

unicornporn wrote: post #4

> We use Twitter for identity, so creating a connection to Twitter is part of the setup process. That must be as far from "blogging like it's 1999" one will ever get. :-/

Beats asking for a password over HTTP and storing it as plaintext, at least.

It's better to let them them leak my throwaway email and 9IB2?iDnDaFt0cf6jwXQp_ rather than accessing my tweets, or even my twitter id.

Re: 1999.io: Blogging like it's 1999

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Post by jharger » Wed, Jun 08, 2016, 10:00 PM UTC

peterwwillis wrote: post #12

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-o…

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Re: 1999.io: Blogging like it's 1999

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Post by gergles » Wed, Jun 08, 2016, 10:00 PM UTC

davewiner wrote: post #15

airencracken wrote: post #5

If I have to enable javascript to view parts of your website at all, then it isn't anything like 1999.

To edit a blog you have to enable JavaScript because the blogging software is written in JS. It would be possible to create a client that didn't, but that doesn't exist today.

You have to enable JavaScript (from fargo.io) to view posts (or at least to view the About page.)