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Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by oldcynic on Friday March 02, 2018 @05:34PM (#16506387)
Not true. Plenty of non-technical people had a web page up like this one. Nearly all ISPs included some webspace, and enough instructions to get going. Lots of people put up something on user.demon.co.uk or geocities about themselves, their hobbies or their pets etc.

Having a web presence died off somewhat as people moved over to myspace and Livejournal then geocities and tripod started being abandoned. Then it started the rise of social, and guest books and web rings slowly became obsolete.

Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by cylinder on Friday March 02, 2018 @07:16PM (#16506944)
Yep. I miss the magic of FTPing into your ISP and having that little folder where you could drop simple HTML files.
Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by thanksgiving on Saturday March 03, 2018 @07:28AM (#16508987)
You can still drop html files on GitHub!

If you're feeling extra fancy, you can switch to gitlab to write and publish static websites in any framework of your choice (including plain html of course but you can use any framework of your choice such as Jekyll or even Vue Nuxt) right from the browser thanks to the power of the gitlab-ci.yml file. As someone who very much dislikes installing node js on my computer, I think this is fantastic.