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Slightly off-topic, but people here seem to like that stuff: The author has a personal website[0], which is a gem from the "old internet" - a wild mix of techni
by blauditore 6y ago
Slightly off-topic, but people here seem to like that stuff: The author has a personal website[0], which is a gem from the "old internet" - a wild mix of technical stuff, pet cat pictures, and some personal history.
[0]: https://delysid.org https://delysid.org
- sreevisakh 6y agoVery interesting! Made me curious about how a blind person codes (accessibility technology). Aside from that, I am also curious as to why you characterize the website as from the 'old internet'. It looks like a modern minimalist static site to me. Not what I would expect from a 90s site. What do you consider as the distinguishing features of old internet vs the modern version?
- blauditore 6y agoWell, my classification of it as 'old internet' is of course subjective. To me it feels like many newer websites appear more clinical, in both, positive and negative ways. I think it's way less common now to mix personal stuff like pet photos with more professional topics like coding. Poeple who post both usually do this on different platforms (social networks vs. personal blog). From a technical point of view, the website makes heavier use of tooling that nowadays are used less, because there are alternaltives. One example are actual hyperlinks and different pages, whereas today there's some trend towards keeping more content on a single page and use buttons to navigate it.