I've forgotten more....
HTML than I remember. I've been hand-hacking my blosxom template and adding inline CSS - and it's been a good 15-20 years since I did this by hand. When did Allaire Homesite come out? 1997? 1998? I worked at the company that bought Allaire and killed Homesite within months of the company purchase, to prevent Homesite from taking sales from their much more expensive tool. I wondered why they bought it in the first place... I miss the old web - the hand-hacked, non-federated, non-social networked web. This is my stroll down memory lane.

I remember trying blosxom when I'd first heard of it, probably about the same 1997-1999 timeframe? It seemed like that's when I remember the first tilde pages and the first web sites owned by real people. I don't think I ever got it running in production, it was probably a little too soon. My first blog attempt was hosted on a Linux box at my house, the content was written on Blogger, and back then, blogger could FTP the static files to your web server. I'd use a Windows app like w.bloggar to write the entry, upload them to Blogger, and Blogger would upload the files to the linux server sitting next to me.

Seemed a little roundabout, but we were happy to be able to serve web pages at all, let alone do it efficiently.

posted Tue, 04 Jul 2023
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Not logging onto tilde.club as much as I should, I should really be avoiding social networks at all costs[1]. I do like tildes, they're a nice throwback to local social nooks. Dial-up BBSes had a different kind of flair, one where one sysop was the creative force. With tildes, each personal page is its own creative outlet. They're Just noticed that blosxom doesn't do anything with hard returns, so I guess flowing paragraphs is were it's at. [1] except @poindexter@tilde.zone, that is...

posted Mon, 03 Jul 2023
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I'm playing around with blosxom, an old meta-CMS that predates Wordpress. I used this briefly years ago as an alternative to Blogger, when it started to get complicated. We'll see if this works. I've been playing with Gemini capsules and Gopher blogs, but there's a lot to be said for simple HTML.

posted Fri, 09 Dec 2022
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