Comment by peterwwillis | Hacker News Reader

Comment by peterwwillis | Hacker News Reader

For this to be 1999-era journaling, it would need:

  - To be written in Perl
  - To support .php, .pl, & .cgi in the user's /cgi-bin/
  - To host about 10000 accounts per physical machine
  - To use FTP, or a CGI form, for remote file management
  - To use HTML 4.01/XHTML
  - What's CSS?
  - What's Twitter?
  - Features: A user profile/bio! User comments! Subscriptions! Communities!
  - Up to 10 megabytes of FREE storage
  - Free add-ons like a hit counter and a feedback submission e-mail form
  - One free e-mail address and five free e-mail aliases
  - EXTRAS: Virtual host name and domain name support, up to 5 e-mail addresses &
    20 e-mail aliases, up to 1000* megabytes of storage, and No Advertising Banners!!!
  
  * actual space may vary based on how badly we over-committed storage

Some of these ideas live on in Neocities: https://neocities.org/

Just HTML and your own assets. No node.js hosting, no JSON+XML backend storage (that we can see), no sweat.

Granted, Neocities isn't built on 1999-era technology either, but I think it better captures the aesthetic of "web sandbox that i get to play with in my own webspace" a bit closer than this.

Actually CSS 1 is quite old but support wasn't good even in IE4/Netscape 4. IE5 in 2000 was the first browser with almost complete support and that was one of the reasons for it wiped out Netscape.

Sign my guestbook!

Don't forget Webrings!

I'm hoping to make them fashionable again! http://webring.club/ :)

  - A visit counter with configurable styles.

The technology is 2016, not 1999.

Then why is your catchphrase "Blogging like it's 1999"? What makes your site anything like 1999?

After re-reading my comment, I think I sound rude so I apologize.

If you are going to use that catchphrase, maybe your site should explain how it's like 1999 because I don't think it's obvious.

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