Re: Re: Resurgence of non-mai
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Boraxman on Tue May 03 2022 08:30 am

Subject: Re: Resurgence of non-mainstr
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Boraxman wrote to Kaelon <=-

I love this practice, and genuinely, wish I would adopt it more often myself. Of course, the loss of Geocities was tremendous because virtually all of those sites were filled with really interesting information from amateurs and professionals alike. True subject matter experts are passionate and know their topics really well, and when you see them provide insight, it's a joy to read and review.

Wordpress.com is a good starting point, they have a great UI, free plans, and you can export your data to your self-hosted wordpress instance when you're ready.

I've captured information for posterity, shared photos, and written a FAQ that are all hosted on a site I started in 2000.

I still have some data from the 90s and 2000's, but most people I would wager, don't, and if they do, it is lost, obscure, opaque. Look at all the BBS's that existed in the 80's and 90's, how many of those are now lost forever?

I so wish I spent more money on data storage back in the 90s and kept better backups. As it is, I have a backup from 1994 and 1999, and that's it.

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poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Boraxman <=-

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Boraxman wrote to Kaelon <=-

I love this practice, and genuinely, wish I would adopt it more often myself. Of course, the loss of Geocities was tremendous because
virtually all of those sites were filled with really interesting information from amateurs and professionals alike. True subject matter experts are passionate and know their topics really well, and when you
see them provide insight, it's a joy to read and review.

Wordpress.com is a good starting point, they have a great UI, free
plans, and you can export your data to your self-hosted wordpress
instance when you're ready.

I've captured information for posterity, shared photos, and written a
FAQ that are all hosted on a site I started in 2000.

I have used wordpress sites, but not wordpress.com. It is pretty good, and easy to get up and running. I have a half developed site, but decided to just go with plain HTML and CSS.

I still have some data from the 90s and 2000's, but most people I would wager, don't, and if they do, it is lost, obscure, opaque. Look at all the BBS's that existed in the 80's and 90's, how many of those are now lost forever?

I so wish I spent more money on data storage back in the 90s and kept better backups. As it is, I have a backup from 1994 and 1999, and
that's it.

Same, though in the 90's I didn't have money, being a student. I wish I kept the school work I did and bought more floppies to back things up I though I didn't need anymore. But the hard drive I had was tiny, and I had no where else but some floppies to put things, and they were limited. I have most of my files from back then, going back to the stuff on 360K disks, but for some reason, files I created myself I've been more willing to just delete when the school work or project was handed in. I really regret taping over my tape of Commodore 64 programs I wrote.

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Boraxman wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

I have used wordpress sites, but not wordpress.com. It is pretty good, and easy to get up and running. I have a half developed site, but
decided to just go with plain HTML and CSS.

There's a package called Blosxsom that had promise - you leave text
files in a directory on a web server and Blosxom formats it, adds
headers/footers/sidebars/styles.

I like that idea.

I know there are a ton of static web page generators, WP is typically
overkill for most.

It would be nice for people to get back to publishing their own
content again, although if you're looking to get your writing seen,
you're better off on Medium or Substack.




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poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Boraxman <=-

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Boraxman wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

I have used wordpress sites, but not wordpress.com. It is pretty good, and easy to get up and running. I have a half developed site, but
decided to just go with plain HTML and CSS.

There's a package called Blosxsom that had promise - you leave text
files in a directory on a web server and Blosxom formats it, adds
headers/footers/sidebars/styles.

I like that idea.

I know there are a ton of static web page generators, WP is typically
overkill for most.

It would be nice for people to get back to publishing their own
content again, although if you're looking to get your writing seen,
you're better off on Medium or Substack.

It worries me that as things get more centralised, it would give these people who hold the keys more power to gatekeep. If substack is taken over or capture by ideologues, a real threat for anything in a Western, especially American country, then authors and views will be made to dissapear.


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Boraxman wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

It worries me that as things get more centralised, it would give these people who hold the keys more power to gatekeep. If substack is taken over or capture by ideologues, a real threat for anything in a Western, especially American country, then authors and views will be made to dissapear.

Or, more subtly, political and ideological views that don't fit in
with a perspective that the company running the site wants, either for political gain or profit, get buried, and you run into the
"manipulated feed" scenario we're in with Facebook.



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