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20 years ago in the UK most ISPs gave you a little bit of web space free with your account - and an email box of two. One of the sad changes that happened is t
by Angostura 2y ago
20 years ago in the UK most ISPs gave you a little bit of web space free with your account - and an email box of two. One of the sad changes that happened is that this has gone now.
It used to make it really easy to have a cool little website. I used mine for a simple blog - now gone.
- badgersnake 2y agoIf they have any kind of comments box it’s pretty ambiguous as to whether or not your personal home pages is illegal now in the UK.
- TomK32 2y agoBased on which law?
- badgersnake 2y agoOnline Safety Act.
- praptak 2y agoTBH I wouldn't expose unfiltered comment boxes on today's internet anyway. That's guaranteed web spam plus a small but non-zero security risk. Maybe one where comments only show up after I manually approve each one.
- badgersnake 2y agoMy understanding is that would be exempt from the regulations provided you ensure the comments are related to the content. But the legislation is super vague and IANAL.
- croisillon 2y agoi agree it was very enticing to get started, OTOH having an email address linked to a particular ISP meant people not daring to change it and having to update their email everywhere
- Angostura 2y agoWhich makes it doubly odd that they are getting rid of it. I have my email grandfathered in by my ISP (Virginmrdia) but they don’t offer it to new customers. I use it with my own domain name that redirects to the Virginmedia box, so not tied to them.
- ghaff 2y agoI suspect the support costs are greater than the advantages to the provider. And, in most cases, it's not like there are a lot of choices of ISP. These days also a lot of choices of free providers for a simple static website--GitHub, pages on Google Blogger, etc.
- bicx 2y agoThat’s how I published my first webpage. Mindspring, baby! And then I later upgraded to a much more sophisticated web host with a cgi-bin.
- benoliver999 2y agoI remember an old friend of mine moved to the Orkneys, and used the free webspace to set up a webcam and site so we could keep in touch with him. Back in the late 90s this was kind of mind-blowing!
- rchaud 2y agoDMCA (and equivalent legislation in Europe) killed it. It was too risky for ISPs to allow users to have unmoderated, publicly accessible digital lockers that could be used for storing MP3s.