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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 — 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). 5 comments
@sarajw @eleventy Who needs the internet archive — 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 🥲 @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. |
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@Chris @eleventy yaaaaas is yours available on the internet archive? Sounds awesome!