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Anon can't go home again (europe.pub)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [M] to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 13 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

how did people in the 2000s afford web servers and domains ?

it seemed like everyone had their own site, my idiot child mind thought that it must be free

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  • [–] 26 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

    it was free. Geocities was free. Domains were (still are mostly) cheap. For simple web hostings there were (and still are) lots of free options

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  • [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Now you could host a website on a pi zero if you wanted to. Well, you could if you make a proper website and don't just download every JS library you can find to add a button.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    if I ever make a website again, it will still static with manually coded html. I don't know js, I can only remember some css. Maybe I'll put some spinning 3d buttons gifs for fun.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago*

    I have used PHP as well for some but mostly stuff like display all the PNGs in this folder on this page. So that changing images in future if they provide updated ones is really easy. They usually loved that idea but most would rarely provided any. But for me it was fun to learn some PHP.

    The rest was HTML/CSS. Maybe a very tiny bit of JS.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago

    And having some web space is not that expensive either. I am not even close to using the cheapest options, but it costs me about 80€/year to run the space I use for my small hobby forum (I will not doxx myself), and some other things. Depending on what your income, and other hobbies are, that is peanuts.

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