@0xabad1dea good morning odin!

@0xabad1dea good morning Odin!

@0xabad1dea ❤️ Happy Day😍

@ariadne that's awesome!

we will not stop until the only background allowed for the X root window is the progress pride flag

that... that is how serious we are about making the linux desktop gay

@sam Works for me.

@clacksee

I've boosted this toot. Will they do anything besides discuss this in the parliament?

p.s.: you'all will need more than 100,000 votes to counteract any invalid ones. From 14,000 to 40,000 extra votes.

@clacksee signed a while ago but giving it a boost

@clacksee Dont remember signing that one but it says I have (mentioning just in case its a problem and other people are getting the same message)

@clacksee Seems to work.
Now at 78951 signatures

Or " 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 , 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 5 4 3 2 1 0 1 0 signatures" as copy/paste would have it.

@clacksee I would sign if I could! Good luck getting those signatures
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@clacksee done ✅

@clacksee

Signed and boosted!

@clacksee wait, did it mean anybody will be able to do a transition for free? Cool.

@sophie geoCities, or more likely, a myspace page with customized CSS/HTML.

@sophie mine was basically all static html, hand-rolled like some feral woodland creature

@sophie definitely built my first website using Microsoft Front Page and Tripod.com in maybe even as late as 2001 :D So Tripod definitely tracks.

@sophie Text editor (!Edit on my RISC PC at the time) and then upload it via FTP to my ISP's provided free 100Mb web space.

@sophie My ISP was Albatross, in Norwich, and they gave customers a bit of webspace. As for writing it... hand authored, angle bracket by angle bracket, in whichever text editor I was using at the time (either BBEdit if I had the old Mac IIci then, or FTE if my machine was Linux; can't remember) and then uploaded either by command line FTP or with Fetch. But I was a techie type even back then, so I suspect this isn't necessarily normal :)

@sophie Macromedia HomeSite

@sophie Demo version of macromedia dreamweaver. From the front cover CD of a magazine.

@sophie hand-built using Joe, the Linux command line editor. Running on Apache on my own machine. Dynamic stuff was Perl as CGIs (programs you hooked into the web server that received the request and output the html, which got sent back to the browser.)

@sophie I had a Geocities site in 2002, as did some of my classmates. Angelfire and Lycos were still in use too IIRC 😊

@sophie back then the ISPs had hosting, my first website was a subdomain on clara.net :)

@sophie Geocities in the 90s, then hosted my own at some local web- and mailhosting company.

@sophie Free ISP webspace, handwritten HTML or maybe Netscape/Mozilla Composer.

@sophie Geocities, both using the web portal and FTP.

I was working on a project in sixth form in ~2001 to create a website for AS-Level Computing. Geocities’ portal stopped working for some reason, so I learned to use FTP on the Windows 2000 command line.

I watched the VNC server switch on, and the head of IT spying on me. He came down to the library to ask me what I was doing 😄

@sophie Hand-rolled in emacs and possibly hosted on Demon, or maybe I’d sorted out an actual server at that point. I wish past me had actually made a note of these things.

@sophie, static HTML mishandled in Dreamweaver or HomeSite FTPed to shared hosting hooked up to a free domain from NameZero, or some such.

@sophie I bought a domain name and maybe 50mb space from a UK host in 1998, that I was still running in 2000. I hadn’t got to grips with any server side language, so I was just uploading HTML files I was writing in Notepad along with images I was making in Paint Shop Pro.

@sophie geocities in the 90s, then with my isp (Demon), then self-hosting with 34sp by 2003 or so

@sophie I started building in 2000 and it was mainly on Geocities. I also tried Angelfire and maybe Tripod more briefly but I didn't learn html right away so wysiwig was easier for me.

A couple to several years later I'd learned enough html that I got away from Geocities and was always looking for free hosts that didn't force a giant banner ad. I remember using Awardspace, might've used HostRocket, and I think there were others I don't remember. Much later (2015?) I used Jolly Leaf for a bit.

@sophie by hand, but less technical people were using Microsoft Frontpage or similar and ftping them to a hosting provider

@sophie your ISP account usually provided space for a website and an email account.

Your username was used in the directory of your site. For instance http://cantv.net/user/~goliath

And your email would be goliath@cantv.net

@sophie I've hosted my own with my own (crappy code) since 2002. I did run a little Web agency with some others, so had my own hosting.

@sophie mostly FrontPage Express and uploading via FTP.
I had some space on my university's server and then, later, on a shared space run by a friend.

@sophie I had a site on Tripod from about '98, then on Geocities from '00-02. Static HTML written in Notepad (admittedly I learned HTML mostly by "view source" and ripping off bits of other sites that I liked).

@sophie

We edited the HTML in a text editor and uploaded the files with ftp.

@sophie Frontpage Express and then Macromedia DreamWeaver.

I myself wrote in Notepad and then Notepad++.

@sophie i got an HTML for dummies book and handcoded it.

@sophie
I used Vim v5.x to write plain HTML, but not a non-techie type..

@sophie I had several GeoCities sites in the mid-late 90s, as well as one hosted through my ISP (internet service provider) of the time, EarthLink.

In the early 2000s, I had a personal site on my university student web server. I also started using shared hosting services to host my own domains. I know MediaTemple was one of the big ones, but the name BlueHost (or something like that?) also seems familiar.

Many of those sites were static, but I did use some cgi scripts for managing parts.

@sophie did many sites 1993-2002 writing html in BBEdit text editor, uploading to server with good old Fetch for ftp (still use that). Lots of educators had Unix email which came with disk space what some call tilde spaces for the ~ before the username in a url

@sophie @oscarjiminy Netscape Composer

@sophie In the 2000's I think it was Geocities, Tripod and ISPs. Netscape Comunicator had an html editor.

@sophie Stones WebWriter, ftp and a ~ account at my ISP

@sophie building? Wasn’t ~2000 the years of Dreamweaver, GoLive and Frontpage? Then FTPing to a cheap hoster, who was responsible for domain and email services too…

@sophie I registered my first domain around '98 through Strato, a shared hoster here in Germany. Back then they offered a whopping 1MB webspace in their smallest plan called "Webvisitenkarte" (~online business card). That was enough to upload some HTML/CSS and a few asset images. For larger images I used free hosting at purespace, which was a free tier of Puretec, which was affiliated with 1&1. I had accounts on geocities, tripod, and such, but never really used them because of that domain.

@sophie ISPs typically let you have a web site by uploading it to the public_html directory in your home directory. It would then appear at http://someisp.com/~username/
I wrote in raw HTML.

@sophie another raised hand for Homesite here! I used the snippets feature often when I was coding static HTML, and it was helpful when I started learning PHP.

I had access to Dreamweaver but often switched to the HTML editor instead of the WYSIWYG editor -- although it was good with "onion skins" if your boss said something needed to be "pixel-perfect" and you were building with tables.

For my personal site, I moved from GeoCities to Dreamhost in the early aughts, and been there ever since.

@sophie I went though the Angelfire -> Tripod -> Icestorm pipeline to having a domain with Dreamhost in 99 or 2000 - can’t remember exactly when!

@sophie I was hosting on my ISP’s space I think at the time: BlueYonder domain (Virgin Media in the UK, maybe Northwest Telecom at the time?). At some point I moved to the Mixed Grill plan from Textdrive (later acquired by Joyent) but I think that was a few years later.

My first site was bright orange and blue: I still have the hex code for cornflower blue, 6495ed, burnt into my brain.

@alice My kin! Ferrets are so cute.

Edit: Weasels are also cute but are not ferrets, even if my little racoon eyes mistake them. Lol

@alice Wait! Is @nuintari stopping by for a visit? Y'all have fun!

@alice hehe, good morning!

@alice

box,,,,,,,,

@alice
Hi Alice 👋
You wake up, I get sleepy

@alice
Once you pop the fun don't stop!

@alice @catsalad Yay! I see a fun-looking ferret extrusion tube in the background, too!

@alice @andycarolan If it fits, it ships.

@alice cc @nuintari

@alice boimg

@alice OMG cute ferret! I could watch this on loop all day.

@alice ahh so that is how you ship a @nuintari

@ttscoff I mostly run Ivory. Occasionally I’ll slip into Mona or Toot!

@ttscoff @drdrang @rho @sashk @benfsmith @jimmylittle I was an Ivory user, then started splitting time between Ivory and Mona, then eventually went all in on Mona. One of the things I really love about it is how customizable the UI look is. I know, silly little thing, but there are a number of custom built templates available to us and they’re amazing.

It’s also fast, stable, and works the way I like.

@ttscoff Crazy amounts of customisation; no missing posts if you’re running more than 400 behind current.

@ttscoff @drdrang @rho @fahrni @sashk @benfsmith @jimmylittle

For casual use, Ivory is fine.

But when I need all the features, I use Mona on macOS. You don't realize how much is missing from most clients until you use Mona.

@ttscoff @drdrang @rho @fahrni @sashk @benfsmith @jimmylittle When twitter died, I was using the app which the Mona dev had made for that platform (can’t recall the name for it), so moved to Mona when that was available. I too, like the customisability of Mona but the main thing, for me, was a single purchase option rather than a subscription. If I was rich, I might run Ivory - it does look nice - but I’m not.

@ttscoff @drdrang @rho @fahrni @sashk @benfsmith I just never got into the Tapbots aesthetic. I had Tweetbot, Netbot, Calcbot, and Pastebot. They're all great apps, but they never worked the way I expected, so they never stuck with me. I think it's just the icons and interactions are all too cutesy for me. I still have Ivory on my phone now, but never use it.