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18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

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Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

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Post by 8lall0 »

danielbarla wrote: post #96
geocrasher wrote: post #90

These simple sites show us something profound: If you want something to last, don't base it on something that won't last. There are a some technologies that will never allow somebody to build a site and leave it unchanged for 20 or 25 years. Cold Fusion comes to mind. Almost nobody hosts it anymore for one. Can you imagine running the same WordPress version for 25 years? The version of PHP it runs on will be EOL long…

> If you want something to last, don't base it on something that won't last. and > I guess what I'm saying is that if you want to build a site to last 25 years without numerous redesigns, build a static HTML page. While simplicity is a great way to future proof things, I'm not convinced that this argument in general would work nearly as well without the benefit of hindsight. One could be forgiven for confusing it wit…

I think that the right way to rephrase that is "use the right tool for the right job".

How many blogs are powered by wordpress? How many of them can be replaced with a static gen?

HTML has a lot of garbage, but at least it's very hard to break it.

Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

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Post by mattkevan »

Once worked on an enormous, very popular site built by hand in Frontpage.

It had millions of pageviews, made over 6 figures a month in AdSense and been updated so often and for so long that the owner didn’t actually know how many pages there were. Had to hire someone just to index it.

Not bad for plain old html and css.

Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

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Post by dna_polymerase »

jgrahamc wrote: post #18

My 23 year old web site: https://jgc.org/ It's still updated from a Perl script that generates static HTML.

Imagine stumbling upon an old-fashioned website, reading it is maintained by the CTO of Cloudflare, of all people.

Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

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Post by notahacker »

ahmetkun wrote: post #47
geocrasher wrote: post #30

My favorite "Retro awful": Site: https://www.lingscars.com/

this one looks very retro but the code is actually quite modern. it has custom fonts, css animations, gradients, etc. and no tables.

Also, beneath the intentional craziness, it's very clever marketing.

Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

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Post by jenshk »

jgrahamc wrote: post #18

My 23 year old web site: https://jgc.org/ It's still updated from a Perl script that generates static HTML.

Haha that's pretty awesome. I have dedicated this year to simplicity and building my company's new website in Hugo with plain vanilla javascript.

Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

#108

Post by geocrasher »

geocrasher wrote: post #90

These simple sites show us something profound: If you want something to last, don't base it on something that won't last. There are a some technologies that will never allow somebody to build a site and leave it unchanged for 20 or 25 years. Cold Fusion comes to mind. Almost nobody hosts it anymore for one. Can you imagine running the same WordPress version for 25 years? The version of PHP it runs on will be EOL long…

I think I should have said "don't base it on something that CAN'T last". This requires no future knowledge. We know that a WordPress version and its supported PHP will be obsolete.

Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

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Post by dahart »

jsaldes wrote: post #40
stabbles wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is hilarious! Turns out 18 year old websites were mobile friendly after all

Have you actually tried the site on a mobile device? It's impossible to read the text and navigation is hell. Wouldn't classify that as "mobile friendly".

Just tried on iPad, the site works great. Did you mean ‘phone’ and not ‘mobile device’?

Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

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Post by paganel »

geocrasher wrote: post #90

These simple sites show us something profound: If you want something to last, don't base it on something that won't last. There are a some technologies that will never allow somebody to build a site and leave it unchanged for 20 or 25 years. Cold Fusion comes to mind. Almost nobody hosts it anymore for one. Can you imagine running the same WordPress version for 25 years? The version of PHP it runs on will be EOL long…

It also helps if you self-host, I have personally self-hosted a subversion repository with my own projects using Trac [1] for 10 years now.

[1] https://trac.edgewall.org/

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