Great stuff! Like many here, my blog/website seems to have been started at that magic ~20 year-old point. I also went back through the Internet Archive and revi

Great stuff! Like many here, my blog/website seems to have been started at that magic ~20 year-old point. I also went back through the Internet Archive and revisited the different phases in my site's "life" at https://www.markround.com/about https://www.markround.com/about It started off as static HTML - built in a tool called "AOL Press" I think I got on a CD from a magazine -and uploaded to the shared FTP space we got with our family's dial-up internet package. Under construction gifs and rainbow spacer bars galore... Since then, it's moved to the various platforms of the day (Remember PHP Nuke ? Serenity ?), become virtualised, moved into the cloud, and now exists amongst various other things deployed to my public k8s cluster. Having your own slice of the internet is a great experience, and I can't recommend it enough. Apart from the nostalgia trip of looking back through the various cheesy site designs and "fads" of the day, it's also fun to revisit the various tech stacks that have come and gone that I wrote about. There's still one of my earliest articles (a review of Solaris 9 - https://www.markround.com/blog/2002/07/02/Solaris-9-initial-impressions/ https://www.markround.com/blog/2002/07/02/Solaris-9-initial-...) online and I've tried hard through various migrations - eventually coming full-circle and back to static HTML with Jekyll - to keep the content presentable and avoiding link-rot. It's an investment of time and money (domains, SSL before we had LetsEncrypt, hosting etc.) for sure but well worth it. I also take a certain amount of pride in stubbornly avoiding the trendy centralised blogging/content platforms that have come and gone over the last few decades - I miss the "old" Internet a great deal and I love that there's still a bunch of us preserving that spirit by running our own websites and tending to them over the years. Here's to the next 20 years! Maybe we should start a HN webring :D -Mark