August 6th, 1996, I created my first personal blog entry. The blog was a static page of various life occurrances, hobbies, thoughts and interests. With this style of webpage I added new dated entries at the top of the page. This was all done with static HTML. Next, I moved to Microsoft FrontPage for a better template and ease of FTP publishing. Later, when I saw versions of ‘blogs starting to pop up, and instead of having different individual pages for topics, they had sections (predating #tags) on the main page, I was inspired to try my hand at this. I cobbled together my own version using a combination of static pages. I created a half-dozen topics (which later grew to 8), each published to a different “page” listing all of the posts for that section, and then a summary page. I’d write and publish these pages with the Blogger website, but I used some basic PHP scripting to combine the most recent post from each topic on a single homepage. Eventually I switched to a very fancy blog site using Movable Type, and finally a self-hosted WordPress install. Then a long hiatus in late 2007. But, returning September of 2022, the blog is back.
I’m going back to my blogging roots and using static pages. Since learning HTML in 1995, I’ve always enjoyed it and the more technical parts of a website, the Internet, and networking as a whole. I don’t see the need for fancy dynamic features, and so long as my webhost keeps their server patched, there is no security maintenace required to be performed by me for the upkeep. I’m only looking for a simple place to post my thoughts and a few photos. Now I’m using Hugo on Homebrew published to a static Apache httpd webserver at Hurricane Electric in San Jose, California. Even more behind the scenes providing DNS as well as my personal domain email hosting is Roller Network in Reno, Nevada.
In regards to email, should you wish to get in touch with me, just combine my first name @ my last name followed by “.net”.
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