Wow that loaded quickly! I wonder what she's doing to optimize it.
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
#282My 23 year old web site: https://jgc.org/ It's still updated from a Perl script that generates static HTML.
My oldest content is from 96 or 97, but the page only exists offline. Hand written, of course, in pico - back then I didn't really know the web existed we just had www/ directories on our Uni's Unix accounts. Around '97 I updated to have frames, then '98 I think was SSI.
Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated
#283Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated
#284My 23 year old web site: https://jgc.org/ It's still updated from a Perl script that generates static HTML.
So I wanted to link my 23 year old website, but precisely because it's still updated, it looks like this: https://www.stavros.io/ It's gone through many renames and redesigns, but, in true Japanese style, it's still the same website. I do have an old snapshot, though: https://anonymoussoftware.stavros.io/
>> Greek. Amateur F1 driver. Technology enthusiast. Single parent. Liar.
thats quite a conversation starter...
Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated
#285Earlier quoted context omitted.
True enough. Though to be fair the last new version of a Win16 OS shipped 26 years ago, and Win32 became the standard API in consumer products 24 years ago. There are degrees of worry here. Software of the vintage you're talking about was contemporary with System 7, and the closest ancestor to current OS X was called "NextStep 3.3". The point upthread was that genuinely useful stuff gets retired just a few years afte…
Apple shipped the last 32 bit Mac in 2006 over 10 years before 32 bit software wasn’t supported. There were plenty of FireWire to Thunderbolt adapters. No the closest ancestor to MacOS X is System 7. There were Carbon APIs until last year. A poster up thread said they could use an emulator. There are 68K Mac emulators available too. AppleScript for instance is a System 7 technology - not a NextStep technology.
> the closest ancestor to MacOS X is System 7.
How do you figure?
System 7 was part of the Classic Mac OS line, the last of that line was System 9 (Mac OS 9). This was a proprietary kernel developed by Apple.
Mac OS X is a Unix based OS derived from technologies they acquired from NeXT.
To say MacOS X is an ancestor of System 7 seems completely nonsensical.
Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated
#286These 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…
While this website still works fine, the actual HTML that Frontpage generated isn't exactly easy to maintain if Frontpage stops working for whatever reason. The author of this website is basically stuck using whatever version of Frontpage supports the markup of his website. And I bet there have been plenty of people who used who are no longer able to maintain their website because their editor no longer runs on their…
OTOH, I guess that maintaining a windows VM for use with frontpage would be a lot simpler and safer than maintaining an old software stack server side.
Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated
#287my site has been online since 2005 and this view has worked out pretty well
Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated
#288Earlier quoted context omitted.
While this website still works fine, the actual HTML that Frontpage generated isn't exactly easy to maintain if Frontpage stops working for whatever reason. The author of this website is basically stuck using whatever version of Frontpage supports the markup of his website. And I bet there have been plenty of people who used who are no longer able to maintain their website because their editor no longer runs on their…
OTOH, I guess that maintaining a windows VM for use with frontpage would be a lot simpler and safer than maintaining an old software stack server side.
(OTOH = On the other hand)
Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated
#289I have a 'personal' website which is also about 18years old. It was the first website I built while in elementary school, also in Frontpage. I uploaded it to I think Geocities or something like that, I think it was Yahoo related hosting, can't remember exactly, but it was free hosting. Some 'fancy' JS effects do not work on the page now, but it is still up. I forgot about and remembered it few years ago and checked i…
Geocities got taken over by Yahoo, I think there was an intermediate step, and they added a JS widget to free pages, there was a hack to hide it. IIRC they started allowing PHP and not just SSI at/around that stage.
Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated
#290My favorite like this site is http://www.burger.com - this dude has a hilarious array of hobbies and awesome beveled button links.
I went from a page that said:
> My charge for typical business or civil work is $450.00 per hour.
To one that said:
> I am a relative newcomer to the world of turtles.
...in two clicks. I love this site.
Also learned a recipe for a quick and easy blackberry cobbler[0].