Post #3318029
2026-06-08 12:17 UTC
Replies (15)
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@Farbs@mastodon.social 2026-06-08 12:28
@ifixcoinops@retro.social Boosted because this is extra fun out of context :)
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@jollysea@chaos.social 2026-06-08 12:44
@ifixcoinops@retro.social I'm in this thread and I don't like it. Made some websites with Netscape (already old at that time), but what a good concept to just ship the website-making-tool with the browser.
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@gellge@infosec.exchange 2026-06-08 12:44
@ifixcoinops@retro.social "Pretty neat! Doesn't matter, but pretty neat!" - the original sin
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@s0@cathode.church 2026-06-08 13:31
@ifixcoinops@retro.social in the nursing home and they set us up with a keyboard and a text box in a page with a post button that does nothing but it keeps us poor dears happy with the reassuring routine
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@hamishb@mstdn.ca 2026-06-08 14:53
But all so relatable. I used to manage quite happily with Dreamweaver. Then, as you say, they gave up. I half-way figured out Coffeecup enough to make a very simple site again but can't seem to upload it to my domain properly and their instructions are vague to the point of faith. The struggle continues. Sigh. . @ifixcoinops@retro.social
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@bogosity@im-in.space 2026-06-08 17:03
@ifixcoinops@retro.social Your "gibbering manifesto" sounds a lot like my fond remembrances do. I hadn't thought about Frontpage in a *long* time, and while I'm not a fan, I agree that it was a gateway drug for a lot of people. Anyway, thanks for sharing.
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@ifixcoinops@retro.social 2026-06-12 23:00
A lotta replyguys missing the point of this thread 🐹 Just learn HTML, it's not that hard 🐼 Wordpress is pretty okay I guess 🦊 It doesn't take much command-line knowledge to work a static site generator 🦝 Cool, you know how to make websites, so do I. The point is that *the internet becomes boring and shit when only people like us get to make websites.*
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@interpipes@thx.gg 2026-06-08 18:27
@ifixcoinops@retro.social
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@nmiller@mastodon.coffee 2026-06-08 18:51
@ifixcoinops@retro.social I loved CSS Zengarden, I had to go and check if it is still there (it is).
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@pianoblack@mefi.social 2026-06-08 19:50
@ifixcoinops@retro.social I like your gibbering manifestos. Websites are way harder than they need to be.
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@ganxel@oldbytes.space 2026-06-09 14:34
@ifixcoinops@retro.social me and my sis found Frontpage Express in 1999-2000 and made a page with just endless screenshots of Final Fight captured from either MAME or Callus. It was great fun - totally different from programming in GFA Basic on my old Atari ST, but enjoyable, visual and practically immediate.
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@benoegen@social.tchncs.de 2026-06-09 19:00
@ifixcoinops@retro.social pure gold!
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@Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.social 2026-06-10 23:02
@ifixcoinops@retro.social I am impressed, and maybe even doubtful, that you typed this out as a glibbering goblin with bloodshot eyes. I didn't notice any typos. Good work, mate, fun read.
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@Herefordrob@mindly.social 2026-06-12 09:34
@ifixcoinops@retro.social I have read but can't remember most of your thread. I am not a programmer or at all techi, but it seems much of what you're saying is about claiming back the commons and cosmopolitanism therefore empowering the majority. As you may have realised I am more into politics. But intersectionality/relationality is everywhere and in each of us.
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@keengrasp@layer8.space 2026-06-12 14:32
@ifixcoinops@retro.social but this thread is awesome! it fits right alongside "Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things" by Cat Valente and that "Orphans of Netscape" post on Gemini.