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

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Post by toomanybeersies »

peterwwillis wrote: post #29
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.

Oh my god. Frames. The horror... We used to append content into a single page because the alternatives were A) independent post files and a cgi script to concatenate them dynamically on each view, or B) re-create the static page from individual post files. Since using a database was totally overkill, and static + individual posts wasted precious megabytes, and a new dynamic process per page load was way too CPU-inten…

A CGI script to cat the posts together sounds like the better option.

Wasn't this the sort of thing that PHP was literally invented to do? Upon saying that, I have no idea what the state of PHP was in 1999.

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

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Post by SilasX »

infectoid wrote: post #70
SilasX wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reminds me of the "frozen in time" NBA Jam site ... with Google analytics.

Do you mean the SpaceJam website? http://www.warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm I go here every now and then. Not sure why.

Oops, yeah that one.

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

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Post by jbicha »

jbicha wrote: post #65
davewiner wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The technology is 2016, not 1999.

Then why is your catchphrase "Blogging like it's 1999"? What makes your site anything like 1999?

After re-reading my comment, I think I sound rude so I apologize.

If you are going to use that catchphrase, maybe your site should explain how it's like 1999 because I don't think it's obvious.

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

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Post by tigeba »

cordite wrote: post #76
tigeba wrote: post #75

Just for the record, I want to point out that it does not render well on Netscape Communicator 4.75. http://grab.by/QH2u

In a way, I feel amazed that it even recognized that TLD.

A big problem for machines of this vintage is HTTPS everywhere. Google still works pretty well and will let you access it over HTTP, but the rendering of the search results is a bit janky.

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

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Post by pessimizer »

debaserab2 wrote: post #71
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. :-/

..and the fact that no one called it blogging in 1999.

http://essaysfromexodus.scripting.com/whatIsScriptingNews

"My name is Dave Winer. Scripting News is my weblog, started on April 1, 1997. It's the longest continuously running weblog on the Internet."

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