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Personal site?
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Submitted 11 months ago by electro1@infosec.pub to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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AgnosticMammal@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
electro1@infosec.pub 11 months ago
[deleted]HollandJim@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s what a Personal site was in the beginning, as most “bloggers” were more technically inclined. We posted what we were interested in.
aard@kyu.de 11 months ago
This all is personal stuff. A lot of us started their pages before things like wikis or blogs existed, so the content often has elements of what you’d later find there - and depending on if it makes sense or not a blog may have been added later on, or not. Or still is not what would be considered a classical blog, but just an easier way of updating regular content.
otter@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
There aren’t concrete definitions around this, but I might categorize it as
- personal site: a website by one person with their work / artistic expression / whatever they want to put on a site that they alone control
- portfolio / resume site, subtype of the personal site where the main topic is the person
- personal site: a website by one person with their work / artistic expression / whatever they want to put on a site that they alone control
0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
They used to be like that even in the 90’s. Yes, some if the sftuff on them is info about the oerson, but generally, they’re usually some tech savvy person that has some personal projects on the side that just wants to share with the world (some sort of a meter, firmware hacks, patchers, etc.). In general, yes, it’s a gold mine of info.
Too bad they’re kinda defunct now with the advent of social media… there were a lot of cool projects on personal websites.
I think git sites are more like what personal websites used to be back then. GitHub in particular makes this very easy with GitHub pages. Got a cool project you wanna share? Make a small web page for it, bam, your project has a web page 😉.
Lufia@lemmy.world 11 months ago
People have been calling them digital gardens lately.
aard@kyu.de 11 months ago
Homepage?
umbraroze@kbin.social 11 months ago
Personal homepages. What we used to call 'em in the nineties.
0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yep, personal website/homepage. They used to be quite common before the advent of social media.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I’ve never heard someone call the “eternal september” the “Advent of social media”
ji88aja88a@lemmy.world 11 months ago
90s era geocities.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No way, man. I’m on angelfire.
0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I think GitHub does a pretty good job nowadays for that, with GitHub pages and all that.
Donebrach@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That is literally a blog, derivative of the word weblog or what people called their own personal websites before social media platforms existed. This is nothing new. This is literally the fundamental content of the internet.
CaptObvious@literature.cafe 11 months ago
Online, today I’d call it a personal blog or portfolio. In the days of pen-and-paper, my newsroom called it a tickler file.
kakes@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Just sounds like a website to me. Maybe the distinction you’re looking for is that it sounds more like a “Web 1.0” style website, before we opened the floodgates on user-generated content.
0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
…before we opened the floodgates on user-generated content.
You mean shitty user generated images and videos… there was user generated content before, but it wasn’t for self promotion. It was just “hey, I think this is cool, what you guys think of my project ☺️”… just people sharing ideas and other things.
Like I remember this very cool project someone did in their yahoo pages, a CD-ROM converted to a CD player. For the younger generation, CD-ROMs used to have an analogue audio out cable, so basically, when you play your audio CD in your CD-ROM, the signal went through the audio card’s CD_IN connector (yes, believe it or not, AUX wasn’t the only line level input on audio cards). Some CD-ROMs even had a play/next button and a stop button on the front pannel. So what this person actually did was program an MCU to generate the ATA commands that the PC will generate, so you can basically use your CD-ROM as a CD player without it being hooked to a PC. Pretty cool if you ask me ☺️. Reuse old hardware, give it new life and meaning… well, at least for a while.
tkc@feddit.uk 11 months ago
I’ve seen them called digital gardens, because they like something you maintain and let grow with no specific purpose.
breadsmasher@lemmy.world 11 months ago
portfolio?
AgnosticMammal@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Wordpress blog?
theKalash@feddit.ch 11 months ago
Only if it was made with wordpress.
pdnq@feddit.de 11 months ago
Knowledge hub? Personal knowledge hub?
droning_in_my_ears@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Look at that beautiful [answered]. I forgot lemmy lets you edit the title of posts. So many embarrassing typos avoided