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FactsForLife is included, doesn't that count as a public health tool? Not sure what you mean specifically, but this appears to at least educate around a lot of health topics. http://www.factsforlifeglobal.org/

I can see the value of data collection too though, but I think for a person accessing the internet for the first time, they would be more interested in gaining information than sending data about themselves into the void.

Right? This is the one I switched to after getting fed up with FormMail. It was self-hosted and runs on PHP instead of CGI, whohoo! Pratically magic for 2001. http://regretless.com/scripts/scripts.php#dodosmail

Oh man, there are HUNDREDS of "scripts" that do this! Here's the PHP one I used to use back in 2004.

http://regretless.com/scripts/scripts.php#dodosmail

I'm surprised this is being touted as such a new idea, but I guess with static sites making a comeback, it was inevitable.

This list is amazing. On a related note, I only found out last year that the ever-mysterious "CGI Scripting" I remembered doing in my youth was actually just Perl the whole time.

I had guestbooks in CGI, tagboards in CGI. And you guys remember Greymatter, right?

How about b2?

I still hold a grudge against Wordpress for over-complicating what was a simple, bare-bones blogging software.

Ahhh, the 90s and early 2000s was a great time for the web.

Another crucial difference is that you can easily choose to not read and participate in feminist blogs and communities, whereas I have to interact with tech communities every single day. Reading tech websites is crucial to my career, and well, I gotta go to the office every day too.

I work at a top tech company in Silicon Valley, in a team of 200 men and 10 women. The men aren't intentionally hostile towards me at all, but they are blissfully ignorant of how their comments and behavior genuinely makes it hard for the few women around them to succeed and be considered equals.

Welcome to my every day life:

One can try to visit tech websites, or even tech offices. I am a woman, and I'm often left with a feeling of being 'the other', sometimes unfavourably so. The most obvious cause is that it is often a community of mostly men discussing both male and female characteristics. A more subtle clue is that it seems that they refer to women as "females", but men as simply "men". Some communities are even hostile to the idea of feminists - in turn some feminists forego speaking up about their feelings, and pretending to be "just another bro".

This is exactly what is wrong with society. You're actively looking for reasons to discredit Sandberg, attributing her success to her parents', to her education, and to her finances. So because she is successful, women won't be able to relate to her, and thus should not take her advice, is that correct?

Does anyone know what Jack Welsh's parents did? Does it matter? Do any articles about Larry Page emphasize his parents' support as the reason for his success? I didn't think so. So how come people are actively looking to credit Sandberg's success to anything but her actual work? Because she's a woman.

Sincerely, A female tech worker with divorced, middle-class parents.