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There is still hope: http://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/
This is... amazing...
great job!
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#252Why all the Micro$oft hate? J++! Those were the days.
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>a way to link stuff together Maybe... hyperlinks via tags?
Last I saw, hyperlinks didn't "provide a client to server API for creating, updating and deleting content, as well as a federated server to server API for delivering notifications and content". Are there any practical applications of this protocol on the wild, or on paper? This server-to-server communication reminds me of email in a good way. It could open a door for websites to talk to each other without Facebook or…
Federated microblogging: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon
Distributed video streaming: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
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#254It's not embarrassing at all! It's no different than picking on the clothes we used to wear back in the 90s. Everyone was neon, too large, and a bit too flashy. It's a product of the times. It's always kind of neat to look at these sites and see the creativity of them. I wasn't really on the internet back then, but I do remember just looking for all of those multi-color joke sites. I love it when these sites pop up h…
I was actually wondering about this. Say I know I'm going to die in the next couple months - if I wanted to put up a website and make sure it stayed online for as long as possible, what would be the best way to do that?
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#255You’re very brave showing that!
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#256Earlier quoted context omitted.
Last I saw, hyperlinks didn't "provide a client to server API for creating, updating and deleting content, as well as a federated server to server API for delivering notifications and content". Are there any practical applications of this protocol on the wild, or on paper? This server-to-server communication reminds me of email in a good way. It could open a door for websites to talk to each other without Facebook or…
Federated microblogging: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon Distributed video streaming: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
I don't think Mastodon has implemented ActivityPub yet, does it?
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#257This reminds me of my first Geocities website: a full repository of KoRn's lyrics to date. It's not that this didn't exist elsewhere on the internet (indeed it did, as of course I used these other sites as source material), but nowhere seemed to have the exact red-text-on-black-background look I was going for at the time. The most excruciating part of this memory is not that I worshipped a nu-metal band, but instead…
Imagines young suddensleep meticulously typing each lyric...
Boom na da mmm dum na ema
Da boom na da mmm dum na ema GO!
So... fight something on the... dum na ema
Fight... some things they fight
So... something on the ...dum na ema
Fight... some things they fight
Fight... something on the... dum na ema
No... some things they fight
Fight... something of the... dum na ema
Fight... some things they fight
Part of me...
Oh...
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#258When I was in high school I created a website just to annoy my cranky teacher, Mr. Davis. The concept was simple, I got people to constantly ambush the teacher in the middle of classes and hug him while I took pictures. Then I posted them to the website, Hug Mr. Davis, along with really dumb text.
It got a little out of hand, there's a picture on there of a football player tackling Mr. Davis in the middle of a lesson (I think he got suspended).
Mr. Davis threatened to sue me if I didn't take the website down. I left it up, but became the only student at my high school banned from bringing cameras to school.
http://www.oocities.org/hugmrdavis/ (click picture to enter)
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#259RIP Missi and Adam's pages :'(
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I think MySpace ultimately represented the final form of the essentially unlimited customization of the early web. The terribleness of MySpace pages was, I believe, the catalyst that pushed the design trend in the opposite direction, resulting in the "standardized array of fields" as popularized by Facebook. That said, given the cyclical nature of design trends, I strongly suspect that we'll eventually start to see a…
Tumblr themes still work like this. Tumblr is actually an almost-perfect natural experiment on the value of customization, because there are two views of any given blog post: a public-indexed static HTML view, that the post's author can theme with whatever HTML+CSS+JS they desire; and an RSS-reader-like "dashboard" view, with no theming at all. Polling Tumblr users on how they prefer to read pages—whether in the dash…
I think a lot more sites should follow Tumblr's lead here, but I fear Tumblr is going to be shut down within the next few years and it'll be the last platform to adopt this approach (at least for a long time).