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"The examined life," a friend called it. Since the tail-end of the 1990s I ran a server for a friend, which quickly became a web host for various local friends of mine who happened to ask "do you know where I could host a personal website?". The web was new and fresh, and we experimented in all sorts of ways. The server lived in various friends-of-friends' companies' machine rooms and I took to my responsibilities like a duck to water, stressing about downtime and other things that mattered little to the folk who were happy for it to be available Most of the Time(tm). We all wrote web journals, to varying degrees of transparency, though the term for these things soon morphed into "blog". We made friends across the world, some of whom we met, some of whom we continue to admire from afar. Some of us moved overseas, some came back (though most didn't). Our lives are all in different places - of the folk I'm still in contact with, or at least occasionally see going by on social media, some of us have changed much more than others.
I'd love to check in with all of those people again, somehow - how /have/ things changed for them? Would they write something small about it on this host, again?
It's so easy to get caught up in the process nowadays, futzing about with a CMS or a static site generator until things feel /just right/. What if we focussed on the content, and let it stand on its own? That's what I'm enjoying about Gemini.
Today's listening: