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Nice little piece, I guess. But I just can't make heads or tails _at all_ about what exactly this website is. Someone's blog? Collective input? No obvious "Abo

Nice little piece, I guess. But I just can't make heads or tails _at all_ about what exactly this website is. Someone's blog? Collective input? No obvious "About" section? What am I missing?

detaro 4y ago
https://everything2.com/title/An+Introduction+to+Everything2 https://everything2.com/title/An+Introduction+to+Everything2
netsharc 4y ago
I used to read that site daily. It's a lot of great writing. One contributor was a guy who'd regularly go to Antarctica for months at a time, it was amazing reading his nicely written pieces about the experience.
kthejoker2 4y ago
One of the greatest websites of all time (I was the technical lead there for a couple of years 20 years ago.) It was originally designed as a more general wiki (the name is a pun of C2 ) and then evolved into a a quasi-literary, quasi-blog thing, with thousands of contributors. Its key features were a supremely easy way to create links between articles ("nodes") as well as empty links ("nodeshells") for others to fill in, encouraging sprawl but also connectivity; a rich voting and reward system, chat and messages, bookmarks, lists - if we had all had a half a brain, we could've pivoted to Medium or Substack no problem. A couple of things I'm proud of there https://everything2.com/user/kthejoker/writeups/Snuff+Etiquette https://everything2.com/user/kthejoker/writeups/Snuff+Etique... - this is an example of filling a nodeshell someone else created with ... something not intended but appropriate https://everything2.com/user/kthejoker/writeups/Ghosts+I+have+known https://everything2.com/user/kthejoker/writeups/Ghosts+I+hav... - using the annual Halloween writing event, I shared a personal story about Alzheimer's And some great stuff by others https://everything2.com/title/Around+nine+PM+my+heart+was+breaking+so+I+went+to+bed+early+to+listen+to+it+happen.?author_id=631430#junkpile https://everything2.com/title/Around+nine+PM+my+heart+was+br... https://everything2.com/title/You+love+these+machines.+These+machines+are+dead%253A+a+love+story.?author_id=738162#Igloowhite https://everything2.com/title/You+love+these+machines.+These... https://everything2.com/title/Why+the+willow+weeps?author_id=896205#Halspal https://everything2.com/title/Why+the+willow+weeps?author_id... https://everything2.com/title/How+to+brush+your+teeth+in+a+combat+zone?author_id=933810#riverrun https://everything2.com/title/How+to+brush+your+teeth+in+a+c... And I think this is my favorite, I think of it often! https://everything2.com/title/Me+and+Sue+and+Ricky+and+God https://everything2.com/title/Me+and+Sue+and+Ricky+and+God But there's just a ton of great stuff on there.
- jordanmorgan10 4y ago
  Thanks for sharing, I'll check these out!

Nice little piece, I guess. But I just can't make heads or tails _at all_ about what exactly this website is. Someone's blog? Collective input? No obvious "About" section? What am I missing?

detaro 4y ago

https://everything2.com/title/An+Introduction+to+Everything2 https://everything2.com/title/An+Introduction+to+Everything2

netsharc 4y ago

I used to read that site daily. It's a lot of great writing. One contributor was a guy who'd regularly go to Antarctica for months at a time, it was amazing reading his nicely written pieces about the experience.

kthejoker2 4y ago

One of the greatest websites of all time (I was the technical lead there for a couple of years 20 years ago.) It was originally designed as a more general wiki (the name is a pun of C2 ) and then evolved into a a quasi-literary, quasi-blog thing, with thousands of contributors. Its key features were a supremely easy way to create links between articles ("nodes") as well as empty links ("nodeshells") for others to fill in, encouraging sprawl but also connectivity; a rich voting and reward system, chat and messages, bookmarks, lists - if we had all had a half a brain, we could've pivoted to Medium or Substack no problem. A couple of things I'm proud of there https://everything2.com/user/kthejoker/writeups/Snuff+Etiquette https://everything2.com/user/kthejoker/writeups/Snuff+Etique... - this is an example of filling a nodeshell someone else created with ... something not intended but appropriate https://everything2.com/user/kthejoker/writeups/Ghosts+I+have+known https://everything2.com/user/kthejoker/writeups/Ghosts+I+hav... - using the annual Halloween writing event, I shared a personal story about Alzheimer's And some great stuff by others https://everything2.com/title/Around+nine+PM+my+heart+was+breaking+so+I+went+to+bed+early+to+listen+to+it+happen.?author_id=631430#junkpile https://everything2.com/title/Around+nine+PM+my+heart+was+br... https://everything2.com/title/You+love+these+machines.+These+machines+are+dead%253A+a+love+story.?author_id=738162#Igloowhite https://everything2.com/title/You+love+these+machines.+These... https://everything2.com/title/Why+the+willow+weeps?author_id=896205#Halspal https://everything2.com/title/Why+the+willow+weeps?author_id... https://everything2.com/title/How+to+brush+your+teeth+in+a+combat+zone?author_id=933810#riverrun https://everything2.com/title/How+to+brush+your+teeth+in+a+c... And I think this is my favorite, I think of it often! https://everything2.com/title/Me+and+Sue+and+Ricky+and+God https://everything2.com/title/Me+and+Sue+and+Ricky+and+God But there's just a ton of great stuff on there.

jordanmorgan10 4y ago
Thanks for sharing, I'll check these out!