Personal websites are attracting attention again as people rediscover the value of owning a domain, controlling their work, and building an Internet outside...
I’ve had my current personal domain for 22 years, but before that I had a succession of hand-coded personal websites going back to the janky free webhosts we had in the 1990s.
How do we find websites like yours? When I do a search it’s rare that small websites appear and Google seems to just end search results after a few pages. Is rss the primary way?
One way to find an individual’s personal website is to get it from them. Mine’s on my profile here, and has been on my profile everywhere on the Internet since time immemorial. It’s also in my email signature, and listed on my business cards and whatnot in real life. It’s established enough that you can also do web searches for my IRL name and probably find me, despite the fact that a famous English football player by the same name took the first page of Google results away from me at some point.
If you don’t know whose website you’re looking for, that makes it more difficult.
thank you, aw damn - some of the data feeds are large but nothing should be render blocking, page speed insights says first paint loads under 1.1seconds I’ll have to improve some of that data or precache some of it
Hah, for some reason when those were available I was registering crazy long ones. It was more about getting the words back then for me.
Honestly I’m surprised mine was still available since the 5 letter one (which is now my main personal domain/site) is actually my newest. It was around the time Popular Science rebranded PopSci, and I was able to grab NowSci.
Mine never left, it’s been there all this time. </SmugMode>
How long have you had it?
I’ve had my current personal domain for 22 years, but before that I had a succession of hand-coded personal websites going back to the janky free webhosts we had in the 1990s.
Geocities old-timers unite!
I had a GeoCities account, but I got my start on Angelfire. I think.
Awesome stuff!
respect - twins
I’ve had mine for about 22 years, but it’s been empty most of the time :(
Never thought of just bringing down? Had any human visitors at least?
How do we find websites like yours? When I do a search it’s rare that small websites appear and Google seems to just end search results after a few pages. Is rss the primary way?
Here: https://marginalia-search.com/explore/random
Thanks!
For me it’s usually webrings or reccomended sections on small websites, or just blogs citing other blogs.
One way to find an individual’s personal website is to get it from them. Mine’s on my profile here, and has been on my profile everywhere on the Internet since time immemorial. It’s also in my email signature, and listed on my business cards and whatnot in real life. It’s established enough that you can also do web searches for my IRL name and probably find me, despite the fact that a famous English football player by the same name took the first page of Google results away from me at some point.
If you don’t know whose website you’re looking for, that makes it more difficult.
same 22 years and counting (https://markobajlovic.com/)
It’s a nice website too, the only critique i have is that it’s very slow to load (at least on mobile)
thank you, aw damn - some of the data feeds are large but nothing should be render blocking, page speed insights says first paint loads under 1.1seconds I’ll have to improve some of that data or precache some of it
I had a <4s load on mobile
(I had let the dns expire once early on)
My website is older than YouTube lol
Mine too. So old I have a 5 letter domain.
I’ve got 4. Ancient nerds unite!
Hah, for some reason when those were available I was registering crazy long ones. It was more about getting the words back then for me.
Honestly I’m surprised mine was still available since the 5 letter one (which is now my main personal domain/site) is actually my newest. It was around the time Popular Science rebranded PopSci, and I was able to grab NowSci.
Respect!
RTF from Cal’s forums? Izzat you?
👋😎
🌵?
Wild. I’ve definitely seen your personal website, then, although it’s been something like 20 years or so. Oh my, we’re old.
Who were you on Cal’s?
SilentNeep 😁
OMG HI!!
Ping me sometime, it’d be great to catch up.