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What is b2 ? A classy news/weblog tool (aka log ware). Two remarkable things in this statement 1. It's been a long time since people called this "weblogg

What is b2 ? A classy news/weblog tool (aka log ware). Two remarkable things in this statement 1. It's been a long time since people called this "weblogging", so long that most people don't even remember that's where "blog" and "blogging" came from. 2. Trends are really fickle, what is classy one year looks very dated the next, and in a decade or two comes back as retro cool.

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DiabloD3 11y ago
3. Fonts used to be unreadably small because we all had 640x480 or 800x600 17-21" monitors at the time, and it wasn't small on those.
- hapless 11y ago
  640x480 @ 14" is 57 dpi, but Windows, back then, was commonly configured for 96 dpi. Making fonts tiny was the only way for them not to render huge on the typical end-user device.
  - frik 11y ago
    1280x1024 on a 17"/19" TFT screen was common in 2004. Your numbers are from a decade before that. Websites were often optimised for minimum width of 800px to cater also old 800x600 CRT screens from last century.
    - DiabloD3 11y ago
      I didn't get an LCD until like 2008 or 2009. But yeah, I was doing 1280x960 on a 17".
      - frik 11y ago
        CRTs are bad for your eyes. I replaced all CRTs in my life with LCD in 2001. They got very inexpensive in 2002. CRTs were very flexible when choosing a screen resolution- 32x200, 800x600, or even 1600x1200 on a 17" - no problem. Today many cheap LCDs look only fine in their native resolution. I wish we one could still buy 16:10 or even 4:3 LCD monitors nowadays. A ~4K monitor in 4:3 would be awesome.
        DiabloD3 11y ago
        LCDs had really bad contrast, and IPS wasn't really a thing yet. I just was horribly unimpressed with how bad LCDs looked for the longest time. Now I'm pining for an impulse driven OLED. True blacks combined with the pixel grid an LCD has, with no persistence of vision issues.
    - bluedino 11y ago
      People are still buying 15.6" 1366x768 laptops by the truck load
- mhd 11y ago
  Remember pixelfonts?
  - DiabloD3 11y ago
    I still use them for white-on-black terminals when I can.
    - mhd 11y ago
      Pixel font != bitmap font. I doubt that you use an all caps retro font for your terminal…
      - quakenul 11y ago
        Both terms actually describe the exact same thing. On the other hand them being "retro" and all caps is completely optional.
        mhd 11y ago
        Back then in the mid 00s the terminology was quite specific, if I remember correctly. After all, "bitmapped" is more about the delivery format, whereas the "pixel" descriptor is more about the visuals (and heck, you could have a vector "pixel" font if you're specific about the sizes and hinting). Kottke's "Silkscreen" was one of the more popular ones http://kottke.org/plus/type/silkscreen/ http://kottke.org/plus/type/silkscreen/
bdcravens 11y ago
I know the term "blog" was being used 2002 or earlier, because my personal site back then had a page "blog.cfm" (though it would be a while before the term was being used in MSM)
- chc 11y ago
  What luso_brazilian is calling attention to is not that the term "blog" didn't exist back then, but that the original term "weblog" has since vanished. Nobody nowadays would call WordPress a "weblog tool."

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DiabloD3 11y ago

3. Fonts used to be unreadably small because we all had 640x480 or 800x600 17-21" monitors at the time, and it wasn't small on those.

hapless 11y ago
640x480 @ 14" is 57 dpi, but Windows, back then, was commonly configured for 96 dpi. Making fonts tiny was the only way for them not to render huge on the typical end-user device.
- frik 11y ago
  1280x1024 on a 17"/19" TFT screen was common in 2004. Your numbers are from a decade before that. Websites were often optimised for minimum width of 800px to cater also old 800x600 CRT screens from last century.
  - DiabloD3 11y ago
    I didn't get an LCD until like 2008 or 2009. But yeah, I was doing 1280x960 on a 17".
    - frik 11y ago
      CRTs are bad for your eyes. I replaced all CRTs in my life with LCD in 2001. They got very inexpensive in 2002. CRTs were very flexible when choosing a screen resolution- 32x200, 800x600, or even 1600x1200 on a 17" - no problem. Today many cheap LCDs look only fine in their native resolution. I wish we one could still buy 16:10 or even 4:3 LCD monitors nowadays. A ~4K monitor in 4:3 would be awesome.
      - DiabloD3 11y ago
        LCDs had really bad contrast, and IPS wasn't really a thing yet. I just was horribly unimpressed with how bad LCDs looked for the longest time. Now I'm pining for an impulse driven OLED. True blacks combined with the pixel grid an LCD has, with no persistence of vision issues.
  - bluedino 11y ago
    People are still buying 15.6" 1366x768 laptops by the truck load
mhd 11y ago
Remember pixelfonts?
- DiabloD3 11y ago
  I still use them for white-on-black terminals when I can.
  - mhd 11y ago
    Pixel font != bitmap font. I doubt that you use an all caps retro font for your terminal…
    - quakenul 11y ago
      Both terms actually describe the exact same thing. On the other hand them being "retro" and all caps is completely optional.
      - mhd 11y ago
        Back then in the mid 00s the terminology was quite specific, if I remember correctly. After all, "bitmapped" is more about the delivery format, whereas the "pixel" descriptor is more about the visuals (and heck, you could have a vector "pixel" font if you're specific about the sizes and hinting). Kottke's "Silkscreen" was one of the more popular ones http://kottke.org/plus/type/silkscreen/ http://kottke.org/plus/type/silkscreen/

bdcravens 11y ago

I know the term "blog" was being used 2002 or earlier, because my personal site back then had a page "blog.cfm" (though it would be a while before the term was being used in MSM)

chc 11y ago
What luso_brazilian is calling attention to is not that the term "blog" didn't exist back then, but that the original term "weblog" has since vanished. Nobody nowadays would call WordPress a "weblog tool."