Rodney Sanches
Wither Hypertext Expressiveness
Beginning: eciad.bc.ca/~rsanches
In the late 90s my web presence were a few HTML and tiny JPG files on a server run by the school I was attending. The school has since changed its name a couple of times and moved, like it doesn’t want to be recognised or associated with its past. I would use a FTP client and drag files to a little window and a dog icon would do back flips. Good times.
Early: remorseless.net/joy
Then Henry fired up remorseless.net and I had a sub directory called joy. The uploading of HTML continued there. Joy felt like good contrast to remorselessness. More pictures and texts followed. This carried on for a few years until.
Middle: joywebsight.com
Then I got my own URL that was maintained by Dave. He kept this stuff accessable during the growth of this medium. Server access, URLs all sorts of internet publishing answers. Then Blogging was a thing, but whenever software was touted, it was more complex than my “workflow” of adding an HTML file to a public server and linking images or whatever.
This went on from 2007 until 2020. Each page was a HTML file and posts were added to it and an RSS file simultaneously via a templated convention. Awkward, yets, easy.
Late, as of: rodneysanches.org
Then I moved to a service and I am pretty sure, this URL. This service was actually easier that my increassingly difficult to manage method. It is file based, and treats type with careful hands. When I saw that punctuation hang on the text block edge, I knew it was a service for me.
Moving over was a bit tedious. At first, I had a about 800 entries to move over; posts linked to accounts I no longer maintained; like Flickr or Twitter; cloud.app who used to host images, but now do other things. I sat on the old HTML for ages, until AI showed up, offering to help out. It got all of the old posts, in the HTML defined by dates and turned them into the required markdown files. Now there are 81 posts remaining to sort out.