I've been quite inspired recently by finding a ton of cool personal websites and wikis and thought I would share my views on how freeing it is to make your own: ritualdust.com/craft/make-your…
I don't like this phrasing: "Don’t bother looking into static site builders or deployment services until just uploading your files on your server is too much work."
[until just] is tough.
Don’t bother looking into static site builders until your website has grown enough that manually uploading your files becomes too much work.
I might go over it in a couple of days and add more resources and definitions to make it even more accessible to newcomers, I feel that we are privileged of having worked with the web early in our lives and it might not be so obvious how to start working with it now ~
looking up "simple web hosting" returns pretty abysmal results, most are super complex cPanel typo hosts, the others ones are like "first step: create github account" 🤦♀️
Unfortunately, when the web was simple, it also was pretty unreachable to a load of people with less skills and training. We failed to make it accessible while keeping it simple. 😔
glad you went there, it is really bad indeed, I work as a software engineer making some of these apps for a company and it's draining my life force haha, it's so bad also how capitalism pushed everyone to become a "personal brand" and try to sell something. If there's resources or websites that helped you get into it without that previous knowledge feel free to share, I'd really like to make it as accessible as possible to new people 😀
heh, i remember stealing a javascript that dimmed most of the page until the user moused over the section of the page they wanted to see. totally terrible UX but I was so proud of that. now I settled for having a single user instance on the fedi, still just as proud but for new reasons.
I love this! I currently have a somewhat fractured homepage—there's the static site I'm working to build, and the WordPress blog that I've lived on for 10+ years. I like the idea of consolidating down into a much simpler website, but all the blog backlog is hard to grapple with.
Hey, I was 20 in the 90ies. And I was lucky to have a computer and internet at home.
The closest thing I find today of the experience of the 90ies web is to go on the #Tor hidden network. And look for websites there. They take a while to load. And you don't know what you're gonna get. The way to navigate is to hop from one website to another (no good search engine on the dark web) and hope to find a good page that lists to a load of other good sites.
I was around for the late 90s web and I think it's really easy to think too fondly on it. Things could feel pretty bloated then, too, because most average users didn't have high-speed access. Sites had less interactivity, but there were plenty of web 'zines (Gothic.net was my favorite then). Digital cameras didn't exist, so even a picture of yourself was a bit of a feat. Probably the nicest part was that lynx worked with everything.
A little bit, yes. There's a super valid criticism that "the capitalist Web" has fundamentally gone the wrong way and that "browser as an applications platform" has sacrificed openness, community, accessibility, and many other things. We should want to take those things back. But we should also remember that the 90s Web required technological skill to be a part of, which was itself also undemocratic, and that bloat always scales to what technology will endure.
16 years old me without any computer classes/prior knowledge figured out my way through geocities, and put stuff online. I wonder what the equivalent of that is today, and if could have figured it out.
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I don't like this phrasing: "Don’t bother looking into static site builders or deployment services until just uploading your files on your server is too much work."
[until just] is tough.
Don’t bother looking into static site builders until your website has grown enough that manually uploading your files becomes too much work.
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The closest thing I find today of the experience of the 90ies web is to go on the #Tor hidden network. And look for websites there. They take a while to load. And you don't know what you're gonna get. The way to navigate is to hop from one website to another (no good search engine on the dark web) and hope to find a good page that lists to a load of other good sites.
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