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I made my first website using vi to make an index.html file in the ~/public_html directory in the home directory of my account on a university Solaris server back in 1997. FTP was a luxury.

Kids today.

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FTP? You kids had it easy.

We routed console direct to disk in PR1MOS, and if you made a mistake, you had to start all over. But you never knew if you made a mistake until it was done because you couldn't see the output as you typed.

Of course, you didn't end up with a web site, but the result was globally networked. As long as you didn't mind that e-mail took several days to get across the country and a week to go from Illinois to Sweden.

/!killer!jolnet... /Bang paths FTW!

This is how I remember website development. Those were extremely fun and exciting times. 1997 was my freshman year of high school. Geocities and Anglefire FTW.

On my university, you do the same thing to get a website up. (Except the web server is actually a different server than the main server, so you have to ssh there, and you replace vi with vim and Solaris with Linux.)

Can we avoid the ageism?

It's called humorous nostalgia. You must be young if you're so easily offended.

Can we avoid the ageism?

It's called sarcasm. You must be old if you don't get it.

Can we avoid the ageism?

That is not the quality content this site provides.

You must be a racist if you can't see that.

If you can't contribute, leave.

You could make a website with vi and host it on Solaris today if you felt like it. I'm not sure why would want to though. Things have improved.

Now I use vim.

Yes, we do have better tools than vi now: Emacs comes to mind.

Obligatory xkcd :)

https://xkcd.com/378/

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