This all is personal stuff. A lot of us started their pages before things like wikis or blogs existed, so the content often has elements of what you’d later find there - and depending on if it makes sense or not a blog may have been added later on, or not. Or still is not what would be considered a classical blog, but just an easier way of updating regular content.
They used to be like that even in the 90’s. Yes, some if the sftuff on them is info about the oerson, but generally, they’re usually some tech savvy person that has some personal projects on the side that just wants to share with the world (some sort of a meter, firmware hacks, patchers, etc.). In general, yes, it’s a gold mine of info.
Too bad they’re kinda defunct now with the advent of social media… there were a lot of cool projects on personal websites.
I think git sites are more like what personal websites used to be back then. GitHub in particular makes this very easy with GitHub pages. Got a cool project you wanna share? Make a small web page for it, bam, your project has a web page 😉.
electro1@infosec.pub 6 months ago
HollandJim@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s what a Personal site was in the beginning, as most “bloggers” were more technically inclined. We posted what we were interested in.
aard@kyu.de 6 months ago
This all is personal stuff. A lot of us started their pages before things like wikis or blogs existed, so the content often has elements of what you’d later find there - and depending on if it makes sense or not a blog may have been added later on, or not. Or still is not what would be considered a classical blog, but just an easier way of updating regular content.
otter@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
There aren’t concrete definitions around this, but I might categorize it as
0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
They used to be like that even in the 90’s. Yes, some if the sftuff on them is info about the oerson, but generally, they’re usually some tech savvy person that has some personal projects on the side that just wants to share with the world (some sort of a meter, firmware hacks, patchers, etc.). In general, yes, it’s a gold mine of info.
Too bad they’re kinda defunct now with the advent of social media… there were a lot of cool projects on personal websites.
I think git sites are more like what personal websites used to be back then. GitHub in particular makes this very easy with GitHub pages. Got a cool project you wanna share? Make a small web page for it, bam, your project has a web page 😉.