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Around 1997 I took my first steps into the web at my school's computer room.
Just a bit later I learned html through a magazine. Soon I had my own connection to the internet.
I could write a lot about how it felt to wait an hour to download a file that's a meager Megabyte big, and hoping it didn't get corrupted while saving to a 3,5" floppy disk.
But that's not the point of this rambling.
As soon as I learned HTML I used it a lot, for fun.
There were times when I wrote HTML to fight boredom. Of course I had a website on some obscure provider (not geocities but something similar.)
In the early 2000's I became aware of CSS and learned it through somebody else's code. I wrote a blog. No longform posts but just a site, where I put micro-blog style snippets.
Then I switched to wordpress, back when it was just a nifty blogging software and not this CMS monster it is today.
In retrospect it was bloated even back then but it was convinient. Writing a post was easy and beside customizing themes, I didn't have to dabble to much with the source code, wich was written in PHP anyway wich I don't know that well.
I find personal blogs appealing. And I have the urge to keep one myself.
But there is no way that I fiddle around with a monster like wordpress.
I don't want to keep a personal blog on providers like blogspot either.
And although I really like HTML, it seems a bit daunting to write a blog by hand, because of time constraints.
But gemtext I can manage I guess. It's way easier to write a post in gemtext, there aren't that many fiddly bits to tweak and I dont have to think about the presentation at all. only a bare textfile would be easier.
I can write my posts on my commute to and from work on my side laptop and push them to tilde.club in the evening when I'm home.
Writing in nano in a fullscreen terminal is so very appealing to me, pushing it via sftp feels manageable.
I guess that's what's really appealing to me, having a blog that seems manageable and really know it without getting overwhelmed with walls of code and graphical clients while something just right beside it becons to distract me.
Maybe it'll stick, maybe I'll abandon this idea soon. Who knows? But for now I'm excited.