{"id":155,"date":"2020-01-16T15:47:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T20:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayling.tech\/blog\/?p=155"},"modified":"2020-01-16T15:47:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T20:47:26","slug":"html-nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/2020\/html-nostalgia\/","title":{"rendered":"HTML – nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Recently I have been spending more time writing content for this website, and shortbooks.online<\/a>. This has made me think about making websites in the early days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started ‘blogging’ around 2002, long before platforms like WordPress, Blogger etc. became mainstream or particularly easy to use. I had FTP access to my website hosting, and I taught myself HTML (and later, CSS). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each post I wrote on my early blog was written directly in HTML, and I copied and pasted a commented out section of code that contained the structure of a post, including <H2> tags for the title, and a PHP comment section. Any unusual formatting, like a picture with wrapped text, or a table to contain data, had to be made by hand each time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making this website, and Short Books has been a relative breeze: Buy a domain and hosting, use the hosting’s ‘auto installer’ to install an open source content management system, and start writing. The CMS will even auto-update, without me having to go to the developer’s website, download a zip file, and attempt to upload it to my hosting through Ipswitch’s WS-FTP (or something similar).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you need to jolt of nostalgia, take a look at this ancient news article from the BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you have any fond memories of web technologies of old? Tell me about them in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently I have been spending more time writing content for this website, and shortbooks.online. This has made me think about making websites in the early days. I started ‘blogging’ around 2002, long before platforms like WordPress, Blogger etc. became mainstream or particularly easy to use. I had FTP access to my website hosting, and I taught myself HTML (and later, CSS). Each post I wrote on my early blog was written directly in HTML, and I copied and pasted a…<\/p>\n

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