If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs

Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by cousin_it on Sunday May 17, 2020 @04:09AM (#23210504)

Yeah. The antithesis of the blog is the evergreen page, where you collect and systematize information about one thing you're interested in, and keep improving it over the years. A great example is Robin Whittle's page about pink noise algorithms: http://www.firstpr.com.au/dsp/pink-noise/ It covers the topic from more angles than any single blogpost. Then at some point your page can become a collection of pages, like Bill Beaty's electricity stuff: http://amasci.com/miscon/whatis.html I think these are some of the most valuable things on the internet.

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Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by sandspar on Monday May 18, 2020 @03:32AM (#23219399)

I love these types of pages. I know nothing about programming. Can you (or anyone reading this) suggest how I can go about making one? What's the bare minimum I'd need to learn to have essentially a single or a few pages with plain text, links, and photos on it, like the ones you posted? What terms should I search for to learn how to do this?

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Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by cousin_it on Monday May 18, 2020 @05:18AM (#23220176)

The bare minimum is to learn some HTML tags (the main ones are <a>, <p>, <img>, <h1>...<h6>), create a plain text file in Notepad and sprinkle it with these tags, save it as index.html, test it in a browser, then put it in a zip archive (along with other pages and images if you want) and upload at https://app.netlify.com/drop

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