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Omg guys it looks really cool. I missed it at the time but it's great to see it! I love the kiwi/kiwifruit thing.

Really feels like the past is coming back in zombie form.

I actually got a part time job as a webmaster when I was a student. On my first day in the job I realised the site consisted of over 1,000 pages sitting right there in the top level directory with no folder structure and no cms, all just manual links.😁😥😫

That's an interesting list! Yahoo!

Kbin/Mbin is written in php! Kbin itself seems to have fallen by the wayside though.

I love this meme.

Fair point, we have all met plenty of those!

That would have been funny but they weren't annoyed with me, it was part of one of those things where people put up a bunch of photos of people attending an event and caption them with their names. I just thought I looked super creepy, and not what you want to be the top result.

Omg php, I never got into that but php bb sites were all the rage. I used to make websites in Dreamweaver. Back when you needed a whole adobe suite to make one website because people wanted animated buttons and flash ha ha. It's so different now we have CMSes.

I get what you mean now. Totally agree. There's an element of creativity in STEM and creativity itself has an element of chaos.

On a related tangent there's the idea of vocation - the people who most seem to know what they are doing tend to be doing it because they are "driven" or it "comes naturally" and both those things are essentially black box.

I'm not fancy either, it's just obscure creative stuff not employment related, so no horrible requests just people looking for things I made or old friends.

Basically I'm just vain. A couple of decades ago (when the internet was much smaller) someone put up an incredibly unflattering photo of me online, so since I enjoyed making websites, I made a website just to win SEO with a flattering photo instead!

Not everyone though surely. At the other end of the scale there's stuff like scientists trying to create a compound that will cause a very specific molecular behaviour in a particular set of blood vessels.

I'm glad he at least realises it though.

I have always had accounts everywhere to redirect people who want to contact me to my website. Even when I was working fulltime, my linkedin profile has always just said something like I work as Lastname at Lastname.

Amuses the hell out of me to get messages from LinkedIn telling me that recruiters are desperately looking for people with my particular skills and experience. To be fair I guess I have been a Lastname for ages now... 😄

Definitely, there's also what I think of as the Listerine factor.

(The people who invented Listerine had no idea what to do with it. They wanted doctors to wash their hands in it, then they tried to market it as a floor cleaner. Finally they worked out they could sell it as a cure for bad breath if they called bad breath a scarier name, "halitosis").