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

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Post by gcr »

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…

Some of these ideas live on in Neocities: https://neocities.org/

Just HTML and your own assets. No node.js hosting, no JSON+XML backend storage (that we can see), no sweat.

Granted, Neocities isn't built on 1999-era technology either, but I think it better captures the aesthetic of "web sandbox that i get to play with in my own webspace" a bit closer than this.

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

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Post by pmontra »

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.

We've been doing passwords on the web since before 1999 and we weren't storing them in plaintext even then. I bet there is a proven authentication framework they could use in this project.

https was there in 1999 too but luckily we must use the current one, which is more secure.

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

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Post by KON_Air »

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…

Don't forget Webrings!

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

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Post by pmontra »

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…

Actually CSS 1 is quite old but support wasn't good even in IE4/Netscape 4. IE5 in 2000 was the first browser with almost complete support and that was one of the reasons for it wiped out Netscape.
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