• Happy Anniversary to me

    From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to All on Mon Apr 15 07:18:00 2024
    I realized that my blog and domain (kataan.org) are 25 years old today!
    I started a project to move the older items from a text archive
    (downloaded from blogger, remember them?) into my Wordpress database.
    I hadn't realized that with blogger, I used it like Twitter as a
    microblog - there are some days where I posted multiple times a day, on different trains of thought.

    I'm always cognizant of how long the BBS has been in operation, this was
    the first time I thought about being on the web.

    1999 was a crazy time. I was working in the middle of the first dot-com
    boom, right in the center of it all. I quit my job at a gaming company
    for a jump in responsibility and a share of a streaming music startup
    right in the middle of the Napster mess. I was in the meeting on
    business deals where we danced around money, because no one was sure who
    should be paying whom. Do we pay for exposure, or do they pay for
    content?

    There were 3 search engine companies within a couple of blocks of me.
    Hotwired became the cool new site. Friends at web companies were charging clients like they were attorneys, getting them a presence on that web
    thing that they didn't understand.

    South Park, a little green oasis in the SOMA area of San Francisco
    became the center of "Multimedia Gulch". Companies that had been focused
    on CD multimedia moved to web design and creative services.

    It all went a little too far. fuckedcompany.com documented some of the excesses, like flake.com, a portal for breakfast cereal lovers, and a
    company down the street that had their coming out party on a Tuesday and
    closed the doors on a Thursday.

    [oh, the parties - it seemed like someone was getting a round of funding
    and throwing a party in their converted warehouse/sweatshop space. One
    of the guys at my startup hosted an email list with all of the "private" parties going on almost nightly in SOMA. The recyclers in the area had a
    field day with collecting empty beer cans and bottles...]

    By mid 2001, the money had started drying up, Aeron chairs and office
    furniture were available at bargain prices from closed-door dot-coms.
    9/11 ended the boom once and for all.

    A friend of mine, a San Francisco native, went through his address list
    in 2002 and realized that two thirds of his contacts had left the city
    as quickly as they'd come a few years back.

    But, it was a good time while it lasted.



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  • From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Apr 15 11:44:00 2024
    Hello pF!

    I realized that my blog and domain (kataan.org) are 25 years old today!
    I started a project to move the older items from a text archive..

    After the home page loads, it seems to flip to a non-theme
    based thing. The subpages are fine, however.


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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Apr 15 09:54:18 2024
    Re: Happy Anniversary to me
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Mon Apr 15 2024 07:18 am

    But, it was a good time while it lasted.

    The late 90s were a crazy time for tech companies.

    Nightfox
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  • From AKAcastor@21:1/162 to Poindexter Fortran on Mon Apr 15 09:54:14 2024
    I realized that my blog and domain (kataan.org) are 25 years old today!
    I started a project to move the older items from a text archive (downloaded from blogger, remember them?) into my Wordpress database.
    I hadn't realized that with blogger, I used it like Twitter as a
    microblog - there are some days where I posted multiple times a day, on different trains of thought.

    25 years and counting is a great run! Congrats on the anniversary. And thanks for sharing the story.


    Chris/akacastor

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  • From n2qfd@21:1/154 to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Apr 15 17:01:55 2024
    WoW!
    25 is that classic of the start of vintage... anyway congrats. It's like watching my ham radio license turn 30!

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Ogg on Tue Apr 16 06:48:00 2024
    Ogg wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Hello pF!

    I realized that my blog and domain (kataan.org) are 25 years old today!
    I started a project to move the older items from a text archive..

    After the home page loads, it seems to flip to a non-theme
    based thing. The subpages are fine, however.

    That's strange, I saw the same behavior, reloaded a new theme and it's
    looking OK now.




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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Apr 17 14:48:32 2024
    Thanks for sharing Your knowledge with us all here.
    Ed
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