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Re: Website hosted on a 24 year old Linux server

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I remember how magical and mysterious a view counter used to feel when I was a kid. How did the website know when someone visited it? Where was the count stored? And how on earth could a website update its own HTML to show the new count? Geocities days were magical. I wonder if kids today have similar thoughts about Twitter profiles and such. It’s probably much easier to pick up the knowledge — back then, it was balk…

Young kids today do not have any kind of thoughts about the workings of apps they use any more than they have thoughts about how their favorite shows or movies are made, or how their house was built, or how a car works.

Round here some of the teenagers show promise as tinkerers.

Reverse engineering the e-scooters so you don't have to pay is popular.

Old cars everywhere being rebuilt and modified.

One guy has added a small engine to his pushbike using some kind of gear wheel coupling.

They are making their own short films and fashion shoots now the Sun is out. Lets face it a smartphone is all you basically need to create (some kind of) media now.

Re: Website hosted on a 24 year old Linux server

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post #26

I remember how magical and mysterious a view counter used to feel when I was a kid. How did the website know when someone visited it? Where was the count stored? And how on earth could a website update its own HTML to show the new count? Geocities days were magical. I wonder if kids today have similar thoughts about Twitter profiles and such. It’s probably much easier to pick up the knowledge — back then, it was balk…

Young kids today do not have any kind of thoughts about the workings of apps they use any more than they have thoughts about how their favorite shows or movies are made, or how their house was built, or how a car works.

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Re: Website hosted on a 24 year old Linux server

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post #26

I remember how magical and mysterious a view counter used to feel when I was a kid. How did the website know when someone visited it? Where was the count stored? And how on earth could a website update its own HTML to show the new count? Geocities days were magical. I wonder if kids today have similar thoughts about Twitter profiles and such. It’s probably much easier to pick up the knowledge — back then, it was balk…

Young kids today do not have any kind of thoughts about the workings of apps they use any more than they have thoughts about how their favorite shows or movies are made, or how their house was built, or how a car works.

Yelling at sky much?

Re: Website hosted on a 24 year old Linux server

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I remember how magical and mysterious a view counter used to feel when I was a kid. How did the website know when someone visited it? Where was the count stored? And how on earth could a website update its own HTML to show the new count? Geocities days were magical. I wonder if kids today have similar thoughts about Twitter profiles and such. It’s probably much easier to pick up the knowledge — back then, it was balk…

Pretty sure the first guestbook/counter I wrote were in perl and wrote to a text file :D

Re: Website hosted on a 24 year old Linux server

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I remember how magical and mysterious a view counter used to feel when I was a kid. How did the website know when someone visited it? Where was the count stored? And how on earth could a website update its own HTML to show the new count? Geocities days were magical. I wonder if kids today have similar thoughts about Twitter profiles and such. It’s probably much easier to pick up the knowledge — back then, it was balk…

Pretty sure the first guestbook/counter I wrote were in perl and wrote to a text file :D

There are (still) dozens of us!

Re: Website hosted on a 24 year old Linux server

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I remember how magical and mysterious a view counter used to feel when I was a kid. How did the website know when someone visited it? Where was the count stored? And how on earth could a website update its own HTML to show the new count? Geocities days were magical. I wonder if kids today have similar thoughts about Twitter profiles and such. It’s probably much easier to pick up the knowledge — back then, it was balk…

> I wonder if kids today have similar thoughts

I'm sure that some do, and most don't. Most kids 30 years ago didn't have similar thoughts either. Few people are meant to be programmers, engineers, etc. Were you not shunned as a nerd for having an interest in how computers worked?

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