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I love these older style websites that clearly are someone's passion and contain a lot of niche information without all the cruft of modern sites. It's one of t
by Ndymium 5y ago
I love these older style websites that clearly are someone's passion and contain a lot of niche information without all the cruft of modern sites. It's one of the inspirations for why I host my own blog and keep it quite light resource wise. It would bring me joy to be able to help others with information that I've written on the blog so I don't want it to be at the mercy of a social network or corporation. I was just contacted by a person doing a similar thing I had written about on my blog and they asked if they could contact me later with questions if they run into problems. It really made my day, knowing that something I did had meaning for others.
Of course, at some point the author of the website (like me) will move on to other things or get too old to run it, and what happens then? I hope the Internet Archive can handle it, but I fear there's too much to store. But I guess that's just how these things have always gone, no matter if it's a website or a book or a collection, there's just too many things in the world to store them all forever.
But I digress. I just want to raise my hat to you who runs one of these websites, filling it with information on whatever your passion is, for others to enjoy and learn from. I think it's a meaningful gesture and I hope you get as much out of it as the anonymous readers do.
- BelenusMordred 5y agoMirroring an entire website is trivial, but the concept of continuing one on afterwards seems a world away from regular open source efforts where it's a daily occurrence. I'd be interested in how many sites were "forks" of an original, doubt there's many at all apart from SEO spam?
- ghaff 5y agoSites like this are typically squirreled away on the Internet Archive someplace. The issue is discoverability. It's probably fair to say that just because something is stored there, absent links to it from active sites, almost no one will find it.
- akudha 5y agoAre there any other passion, old style, useful sites that you know of? I remember coming across two on HN - one on trains, train schedules etc and another on plants (I believe this one was by a couple). Unfortunately I didn't bookmark either of those, I don't remember the URLs anymore :(
- Ndymium 5y agoOne great one is Jukka Korpela's website https://jkorpela.fi/ https://jkorpela.fi/ It's mostly in Finnish but has some English pages as well. It's a treasure trove of various information, and especially good information on Finnish grammar, I've used it often to find out the answers some more obscure grammar questions.