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 I loved it. I still love it. I still don't really know why it's so satisfying to build up a web page (not even a site, just a pretty page will do) from scratch like that, why turning plain text into fancy webby stuff was such fun. Is such fun. And it can be so *quick*. I think that's one reason why burnout is high lately - there's so much overhead now and... Not always for any good reasons. All the overhead (DevOps, frameworks, all the stuuffffff) gets in the way of change stuff! See results! 11 comments
 @sarajw @eleventy Who needs the internet archive β I have it on my actual website! I wrote a post about it a few years ago, where I link to both a 1998 and 1999 version of it. https://illtron.net/2019/04/boba-fetts-lair/ The earliest working capture on the Internet Archive is the 1999 version, from 2001. I'm a digital pack rat, and so I'm really bummed that I don't have my very oldest stuff. @Chris oh gah, that's so cool. I lost all my earliest stuff years ago after I wiped and reinstalled a PC. I decided all the old data didn't need to come with and could just sit on an external hard drive, which itself got wiped at some point. There's a whole load of stuff I'm so sad I don't have any more π₯² @sarajw Yeah, my very oldest stuff was only ever on PC-formatted floppy drives since I did all of it in the school computer lab at first. Everything on Geocities was overwritten every time I made a change, since it was all pasted into the File Manager. I actually have old school reports, poetry, and other assignments from the mid-'90s though. There may be chance the floppies still exist in some box, but I doubt they'd work even if I had a floppy drive to read them. @Chris feels so alien now to have such precarious data stores - what with all the easy ways to back up, cloud storage etc. @sarajw As a librarian, I have regularly taught an HTML & CSS class that is really meant as an optional precursor to the classes I do on Wordpress and Drupal, but I have them build a site from scratch using a text editor. First the HTML and then the CSS. @fskornia it's so great that you can still just do that. The web is the best for backward compatibility. A throwback memory appeared: The first summer after discovering all this, I suffered my first long period without internet on my dad's boat - addicted already - and what did I do? I planned a website design. I had a block of squared paper - and you know the "cool S"? I first drew up a whole font in the same style, and used it to make titles to use as headings and as buttons for my links within my new navigation-to-be. I coloured them in with neon highlighters. I scanned them when I got back π  @sarajw wow, that's SO cool haha. Talk about someone with a passion for web stuff. Rad @sarajw Wow! I still have a font I created this way.π with most of the non-alphanumeric characters missing. |
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@sarajw This is why I love @eleventy. For my money, it's as close to what I wanted once I figured out what I was doing 25+ years ago β reusable templates, a bit of processing, and the option for total control, should I need it.
For what it's worth, I started in 1996 with Frontpage in my school's brand-new Windows 95 lab during my senior year. I quickly found it wasn't cutting it, and I would need to actually learn HTML to achieve my vision (the best Boba Fett fan page on all of Geocities).