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Beethoven and Bach. Depends.

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Can only upvote once, alas ;)

Both have that aesthetic that says “I was made by someone who does not do web dev professionally.” I’ll be totally honest, I do actually prefer the way modern sites look, even corporate modern sites, over that,

I don't, it's too formatted and too... sanitized to my taste. I like people/websites having their unique personality, even when it's a clumsy one ;)

I might actually considering making a little site for myself then, and hooking up on a webring… I’m not much of a journaler but it could probably overlap with what people do with journals if I post every time I engage in the hobby and don’t delete the post (or if I use git so I can see the change history lol).

Great idea! (coming from a lifelong journaler)

My Canon thermal typewriter TypeStar 220 uses D cells. And I still use that machine... very often. I do remove those cells for long-term storage, though.

Same here, a few years ago I made the switch and never regretted it (from Mac, not Windows though) ;)

It's not perfect, but neither was macOS (or Windows) so I'm OK with that.

loose leaf ftw ;)

I have one box of tea bags, in case someone really insist on using that but we buy our tea in bulk from Dammann Frères, a well-known and rather old brand here in Paris. It's kinda expensive, but so effing worth it. Just thinking about it makes me want to prepare a cup of tea for my spouse and I ;)

I have a few pictures of flowers. So, in a metaphorical way I reckon those could be considered NSFW? Beside that, I'm afraid I have nothing to show. Or should I say to hide? ;)

I have a few more NSFW books on my bookshelves at home, mind you. Not porn even though I do have a few Sade and other authors like that. They're mostly books that would today be (or had once been) considered unsafe reads. The kind of books more and more people (those same people that don't read much outside their comfort zone) believe can do harm and want them to be removed from certain public libraries, or want them to be more or less completely edited to fit their own narrative.

Wonderful memories, thanks for sharing! I had a goofy smile throughout reading that!

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and “well, you’re not young” to a good chunk of the population (:

(leaning forward) Can you write louder, kiddo? I can't hear that well anymore :p

Pas besoin de t'excuser, et merci pour la ref.

Please tell me it had a visitor counter on the front page and blinkies in the footer?

:) (Nodding knowingly, kids have no idea these days)

But no it did not had these, not in the early days at least. Back then, it was already something for young (and ignorant me) me to be able to display text and put an image... thumb-sized, because dial-up Internet was slow and anything but cheap. A little later, I started (over)using gif like many, also learning to create my own (I'd rather not remember any of my 'creations' :p). But I never was obsessed with that. The moment I fell in love with my website, wanting to make it even more uniquely mine, is when I first heard about and tried CSS. That came later for me, but I could not tell how much.

It was a clumsy learning process, all done by hand through trial and (soooo many) errors, but that was mind blowing. I madly fell in love with CSS... Flash forward quite a few years later, when they finally managed to make me run away from the complex beast they had turned CSS into, and even steer away from the idea of handwriting my own website like I had been doing for all those years.

On that note, Neocities is still alive and the websites there remind me of the walkman and pez dispenser I had, love it!

Thx for the link!

I remember neocities. A bit like I remember Lycos and even more fondly remember my very first Walkman (Sony's very first model, my uncle brought me back from Japan back then). I have been using that poor thing for countless years. It was beaten to death, paint was gone in so many spots there was not much left to be read on it but it worked well. I loved it. I often listened to cassettes on that beaten up Walkman while I was trying my hands at writing HTML and CSS up until years later when it died of one last fall on the ground. No matter how silly that is, I was sad losing it. If I remember well, I also managed to get my hand on a compatible DC adapter, so it would eat that much batteries.

Disclaimer: I'm not that old.

edit: typos.

Inertia. Why did kings exist for so long?

They did not 'exist' spontaneously to begin with.

Grossly put, In early days France kings were elected. That's how Hugues Capet became king of France around 980 AD (Hugh is considered the founder of the Capetian family that lead to Louis XIV and to Louis XVI). He was elected by the other members of the aristocracy, and he was far from being the most powerful/rich/vast land owner (his 'kingdom' was in reality quite small compared to the lands of other aristocrats). Then, it's a lot of diplomacy and a lot more patience (over centuries), alliances and marriages (plus a few treason, and feuds) that made the difference and lead to his descents to become the incarnation of absolute power they once were peaking in the advent of Louis XIV and then it went to shit rather quickly (the dude died around 1715... barely 70-some years before the French revolution and the Republic), with only two more kings after him the second one, Louis XVI, ending beheaded. Meanwhile that Capet family was not 'undisputed' as the legit kings. Valois and then Plantagenet contested quite harshly their title and for quite some time they took it from them. It was only in somewhere in the XIII century that the Capet took back their power... up until 1789.

So, beside religion (bad karma, plus real risk of lessening one's power) politics and pragmatism explain the non constant killing of new kings. The real risk of having to face a coalition of all the other aristocrats (hostile to power grab) and also the certainty that if anyone could kill a king to become king, well, anyone else could do the same to the new one. It was much better (and safer) to agree to keep one king alive for a while and then, while publicly submitting to his authority (up to a certain point, as there were almost constant... disagreements) to split practical power between them (aka, back then split land ownership). It's also a lot cheaper than to have to fight constant internal wars to keep whatever you can put your hands on by a coup. Plus, publicly recognizing the dude as your king did not prevent you from secretly (or not so secretly) to weaken him or help to make his life hell. Ancient history of France is filled with that. It's great read ;)

Did not know about that. I'm one of their customers.