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I was wondering if someone else would remember this.
by dcrazy 1y ago
I was wondering if someone else would remember this.
- johnisgood 1y agoRemember? I just exported bookmarks as a HTML a few days ago. :o
- dcrazy 1y agoI was referring to the time when Bookmarks.html was Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox’s actual on-disk storage format, not just its import/export format. Editing that file would change the contents of your Bookmarks menu.
- dariosalvi78 1y agoI do! And still thought it was the case! In fact the first reaction to this txt thing was: well, we already have them in html, why txt?
- selcuka 1y agoI also remember that the first web based forums used a Perl script that actually created new HTML files on the web server when someone posted a new topic, and modified the existing one when someone posted a reply. A bit similar to static web site generators today, only with endless security vulnerabilities.
- krapp 1y agoYou might be referring to the venerable wwwboard from Matt's Script Archive, which amazingly still exists: https://www.scriptarchive.com/wwwboard.html https://www.scriptarchive.com/wwwboard.html
- selcuka 1y agoIt's been almost 30 years, so my memory is hazy, but that really looks like it. It still exists but last updated in 2000. It might be fun to make a Docker container with the right dependencies (if that's still possible) to run it.
- dcrazy 1y agoI believe UBB (Ultimate Bulletin Board) worked this way too.