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

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Post by cyphar »

spc476 wrote: post #87
peterwwillis wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Methinks you are selling older computers short. I ran my blog (up through 2005, maybe to 2006) on a 50MHz 486 with 32?MB RAM (maybe 64MB? It's been a decade) and a gig hard drive. That same server was also my email server. Then again, I wrote my own blogging engine in C [1] (and still use it). [1] https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog

+1 for GPLv2 or later. :D

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

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Post by NKCSS »

Let me cross-post my comment from http://my.1999.io/users/NKCSS/2016/06/09/0001.html

Nick Kusters@NKCSS1 min 0 likes Checking the editor to see how this works...

It seems to bare-bones to me.

Nick Kusters@NKCSSJust now 0 likes I expected a lot more to be honest; and no edit button seems like an omission.

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

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Post by rplnt »

scvs_rule wrote: post #49

Websites in 1999 didn't use 2MB PNG files as background images..

Do people nowadays really don't care? Or are completely oblivious to the fact that images can be huge? 2MB is still a lot of data even today. I could see it loading (on 100Mbit no less).

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

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Post by MustardTiger »

toomanybeersies wrote: post #72
peterwwillis wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yes, PHP had already largely supplanted perl cgi scripts by 1999.

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

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Post by emillon »

KON_Air wrote: post #44
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!

I'm hoping to make them fashionable again! http://webring.club/ :)
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