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    From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Richard Miles on Tuesday, August 04, 2020 23:02:00
    Hello Richard!

    ** On Sunday 02.08.20 - 17:36, Richard Miles wrote to August Abolins:

    It's short for Weblog, which was originally Web Log. Been around a lot longer than the software which is mostly used for them now (Wordpress). I hand coded mine originally, then moved to a php based software called Movabletype, then finally Wordpress.

    My first attempt to "blog" was this as an example:

    http://kolico.ca/fidonet/echos/win95/

    It was my personal extension of the WIN95 echo where I would elaborate
    with images, further links and descriptions based on the topic at the
    moment.

    Same thing with:

    http://kolico.ca/fidonet/echos/linux/

    The idea was to have a separate page for each echo I was participating in. This was when I was still using dialup to access my ISP and long before I
    had knowledge or experience with CMS programs like Wordpress.

    It seemed very efficient and quick to just tack on a new "section" to the html code as my "post".

    Before I settled with WordPress I loved building sites with shtml files.
    It was super easy to design "sections" for a webpage (header, menu,
    content, footer) and control everything with shtml versions for the pages. For example, you could build a row for the menu buttons for one page, and then use the same file (not a copy) for subsequent pages. You would only
    need to edit that one file to affect all the other pages. It was like
    working with a precursor to a CMS system.


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