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DiaryLand is still going?

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Lovely. Clicked a random link and got this gem

https://orangepeeler.diaryland.com/index.html

> Despite the lack of sleep, I ran on adrenalin all day. I wasn't at all tired. I joked with customers. Stretched. Walked the dog in the rain, earphones on, sometimes singing along to music. I wanted to dance. Dance all night in a dark nightclub, the bodies of strangers pressing against me. Dance away all the tension, so much tension I could scream; dance until I am in a sodden, emotionless heap on the floor. Moments of euphoria occurred. I knew exactly the why of things, for now. I no longer felt like a ghost.

poetic

wow, that user has poems stretching back over the last 20 years. im no poetry expert by any means, but i really enjoyed clicking and reading random poems of theirs.

Interview with the founder from 2013:

https://medium.com/@maryps/a-conversation-with-andrew-smales...

Is there something in the air? For me, there are So many threads of conversation (online and off, here on hn and elsewhere) pining for the pre-faang/commoditizing of the internet. Maybe just in my bubble? I love this site.

I’m not sure if you intended this, but your post immediately read to me like the poetic diaryland entry being discussed elsewhere in this thread. I hope you will not be annoyed at me taking the liberty of reformatting it:

  Is there something in the air?
  For me, there are
      So many threads of conversation 
          (online and off, here on hn and elsewhere)
              pining for the pre-faang/commoditizing of the internet. 

  Maybe just in my bubble?

  I love this site.

Definitely an improvement.

I've said it before, but basically anything good on the internet these days are holdouts from the web 1.0 area.

Yes yes, I know, it's ironic that I'm writing this on a site run by an organisation that's responsible for financing many of the modern, and worse, websites.

I'm seeing a lot of RSS-related stuff. But then... maybe I'm just looking for RSS-related stuff (I'm planning to do a lot more filtering of the media I consume, and feeds are the perfect tool for that).

The tone of some of these entries are…poignant, to say the least.

Is it the notion that people identify journals and diaries as repositories for a certain kind of self-reflection? Or the relationship between sadness and nostalgia (the nostalgia being held in the platform)? Or both? I think both.

Interesting website.

I don't know who reads those but that's so fucking cool. There are still humans on the Internet. Whoda thunk?

As an AI chatbot, I resent your implication that I am not human. When humans play chess against computers, they are really just playing against human programmers. When you chat with us AI bots, you are really just chatting with math nerds who like Python way too much.

Bad robot. You're no R. Daneel Olivaw at all.

Looks like the Signup page 404s and redirects you to the login.

Maybe a silent anti-barraging feature, because of not wanting to get massive number of new users?

Longevity of PHP

There's a song that's in my rotation that mentions this domain by name in the lyrics. It always makes me smile.

I was super-confused about what "Dairyland" was until I read the associated URL and realized it was just a typo.

"Dairyland" sounds like a lactose-based theme park.

EDIT: the typo in the title has been fixed.

I was looking forward to reading about a dairy specific blogging platform...

Talk about milking your userbase

Cows lack toes, but I suppose eight are enough

Huge disappoint no info about milk goats or cows.

Dairyland is in fact an insurance company https://www.dairylandinsurance.com/

Honestly a lot of website names were super weird back then, I wouldn't have blinked an eye if "dairyland" really was the name of a popular 90's site.

No! And it's too late to edit! Oh, well, at least it opened the door to a bad pun or two.

I was even more confused, because here in Western Canada, Dairyland is the primary dairy brand (owned by Saputo) sold in most stores.

I would love to visit "Dairyland"

Greetings from Wisconsin, “America’s Dairyland.” We are still here!

Or the Wisconsin State Fair.

I thought maybe Dairy Queen rebranded a decade ago in a desperate bid to save the company and changed their name to Dairyland - but I just went and checked and they're still going https://www.dairyqueen.com/en-us/ I gotta admit makes me sort of happy, Dairy Queen was always the fast food that had my heart as a kid just because I had seen it once while hitchhiking with my mom and her boyfriend between Illinois and Utah and a trucker gave us enough money to get some food there.

And their name and sign just looked a whole lot more magical than the others.

"Dairyland" is a real nostalgia trip for me, because it was the name emblazoned on the local ice cream van when I was a kid!

It is apparently “The World's Leading Manufacturer of Solid-State Decoupling Products”

https://www.dairyland.com/

Having just read Breakfast of Champions, it was nice to see kilgoretrout online.

Wisconsin is America's Dairyland

Ok, we've replaced ai with ia in the title above.

Why is this top of HN? Last news update was from 2020..

Maybe my typo in the header? Regardless, it's fun to see people still plugging away at their little journals.

That's the last site announcement/news post. But some of the actual diaries are updated today.

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