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diff --git a/friends.mdwn b/friends.mdwn index ec4858b..3c0a5ba 100644 --- a/friends.mdwn +++ b/friends.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,24 @@ -# pages tagged friends +# Messages to Friends -[[!inline pages="tagged(friends)" actions="no" archive="yes" -feedshow=10]] +In 1997, I started occasionally sending emails to all of my friends that +I was in contact with by email. At first simply listing them all as +recipients in a regular email, but later I maintained a proper +mailinglist for it. + +My habits changed gradually, and by 2004 I no longer used that list - +posting news directly on my website instead. + +When I learned about the concept of "blogging" I realized that in a way +that is what I had been practising back then, just not using the RSS or +Atom distribution mechanisms making proper blogging so extremely +efficient. + +Now I decided to re-release my old Friends posts as modern blog entries, +for archival purposes. + +Even if I didn't know about blogging, my web programming tool back then +was [Frontier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Userland_Software#Frontier), +which later became one of the first blogging tools. That happened after +a shift to a more commercial licensing model - an issue which back then +meant enough for me to abandon it, and now is essential to my approach +to computers. diff --git a/friends/sidebar.mdwn b/friends/sidebar.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2141ce9 --- /dev/null +++ b/friends/sidebar.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Messages to Friends + +[[!inline pages="tagged(friends)" actions="no" archive="yes" +template="titlepage" sort="-meta(date)"]] |