The preview image as well as the blogs logo are AI.
I sincerely hope, I dind't just waste my time reading an AI generated blog post.
this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2026
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For a while, the personal website looked like a leftover from an earlier Internet.
Looks at website Q.Q
On another note, namecheap stole my domain by not sending renewal notice and selling it to bidder who had offered previously.
I’d love to do this but I’m totally tech illiterate
Anectdotally most of the personal blogs i stumble upon now are vibe coded and full of AI writing.....
Kick them out of the web ring.
"That's a great observation! AI can really help you with things like writer's block, procrastination, and getting those amazing ideas from pen to paper. I can help brainstorm some great ideas for your personal blog or website just ask me - try asking me things like 'global thermonuclear warfare' or 'Ebola genetic variant splice' and I'm sure we can team up on some great writing ideas in no time!"
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BBS and mailing lists
I'm surprised someone remembered bbs'es. Those were some fun 300 baud times.
Does anyone still run a BBS? I guess there's no sense in using modem, but via SSH or something?
I have a URL that’s 30 years old this year and it’s still valid and it still redirects to my personal homepage.
(Bonus: The oldest Internet Archive snapshot of it is from 1997.)
How dare you claim that 1997 was 30 years ago.... oh shit...
Not trying to one-up, but I registered daychilde.com in 1996. It's actually on my to-do to redesign again as I leaned in a bit on the AI for art, although it's a bit older than the 2025 the articles are from. heh. I'll get there.
I think the next iteration will use 1600s fonts because I adore those - https://fonts.google.com/?query=im+fell
I think you and I chatted about life in Virginia a while back. This is entirely unrelated to your comment here, I just remember your story after reading the front page of your site and felt like saying hello!
I don't remember the conversation, but I remember your username. But I'm so horrible about checking usernames without RES tagging...... I need to remember to include that as I'm sort of working on a project that will include a Lemmy front-end......... lol.
I was briefly stalking your profile to see if I recognized anything or had upvoted you, but then I almost started thinking of it as a feed and nearly replied to some of your comments. lol. I'm tempted to go back and still do that if it wouldn't annoy you. XD
I do need to work on that front end. I know some front ends have tagging, but I haven't liked the ones I've found, and the main reason I'm working on the project is to make more moderation tools workable as Lemmy's native mod tools suck.
All of which is to say a hearty hello back. I still think your username is awesome, by the way. :)
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AI scrapping bots prevent me from making my own site. I want to learn how to poison the pages for these scrappers just like gamers nexus is doing. Sigh.
what are they scrapping? copper?
Time to dust off the ol' GeoCities page, but I will keep the under construction gif.
GeoCities unfortunately doesn't exist anymore, but there's NeoCities now.
Mine never left, it's been there all this time.
My website is older than YouTube lol
Mine too. So old I have a 5 letter domain.
Respect!
RTF from Cal’s forums? Izzat you?
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How do we find websites like yours? When I do a search it's rare that small websites appear and Google seems to just end search results after a few pages. Is rss the primary way?
For me it's usually webrings or reccomended sections on small websites, or just blogs citing other blogs.
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same great ones too. neocities is fun to just go through but my favourite is using https://wiby.me/ and just hitting "surprise me" some great old school personal sites.
I do that on a windows xp vm for intimate old web larpinig
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One of the shitty Mars movies from the early 2000s, Red Planet, has a line where one of the douche bags says to one of the nerdy types “so how many hits did you get on your website today” and it never fails to crack me up both because it dates the movie horribly and because it’s the jock saying it to the nerd.
Man I hope so.
I'm skeptical, but I hope so.
Also sharing the concern that people are able to vibe code some crap and too many words in their writing as a cause rather than more positive changes.
Personal website may be becoming more popular but they will definitely not substitute facebook and instagram for 99% of internet users. If that's what you're hoping for the just forget about it.
As for AI, obviously we will not be able to use google to find the good personal websites. We will have to go back to webrings and 'Links' sections on our websites. It may be fun but it will definitely not solve any real issues.
@nutellawaescher I think the fediverse and the ability to somewhat self host your own instance is going to really revive the personal website space, for example I used to have my own WordPress it was great but did not offer me enough of outside world, so I shut that down and installed my own friendica instance, it is both my window to the world and my own living biography, and slowly through the fediverse I am seeing a resurgence of personal web spaces and I think that is great;
I started doing a radio show / podcast on an online station a couple of years ago. To start with I just put it on their site and Mixcloud and that was that.
But 18 months ago I had to part ways with them, so figured I'd probably just carry on doing it and putting it on Mixcloud. But I needed somewhere to stream live, so I had to put together a website.
Long story short; yeah, I now have my own website, with Owncast and Icecast subdomains and my show is available as a podcast that has an RSS feed.
As an added bonus, seeing as I already have a VPS, I've created a bunch of subdomains that I use to redirect some services that are hosted on my home server.
It's fun.
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