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> Static blog generators are the next big thing. I don't mean this in a hipster way at all.. but static blogs have been around and popular for a long time. It'
by rryan 12y ago
> Static blog generators are the next big thing.
I don't mean this in a hipster way at all.. but static blogs have been around and popular for a long time. It's been at least 5 years since Jekyll got popular which is one of the first static site generators that I remember catching on. There were surely ones that came before that that I hadn't heard of. I was building blogs and websites with Hyde (a Python clone of Jekyll) in 2009.
What's old is new again?
It feels kind of silly to call this a movement :).
- skymt 12y agoRadio UserLand was statically building blogs in 2000, predating WordPress and Movable Type.
- MJR 12y agoBlogger was a static blog generator well before this. It launched in 1999 and was around for a few years in that form before it was acquired by Google in 2003 and transitioned . You logged into the Blogger site and wrote your posts and then published them, which would generate your files and then FTP them to your server.