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https://www.pleeboo.com/ is a who-brings-what kind of tool for organising poltucks, school events or any kind of gathering where tasks need to be distributed

From my experience, it used to be quite normal for a lot of my non-technical peers to have a personal webpage on the internet with frontpage express, wordpress or geocities. Nowadays, even a lot of businesses don't have a website, but instead an Instagram or Facebook entry. YMMV

The internet is still decentralized today.


Idk, most people I know used services like wordpress.com (so not self hosted), livejournal (and its local alternatives) etc.

This if we are talking about second half of 00s. Before this? Most people barely have internet access at home. And things like BBS (for example) were for techies only with very few exceptions.

Maybe it was quite different in the US for example.


Yeah sure wordpress.com or geocities are not self hosted - but you had much more control over your content. People would just link to other blogs they like or comment on their guestbook / comment page. People would host php-forums. In each friends circle (school or hobby groups) there was always at least one kid who would be tech enough to host some php app on a shared hosting, and people would actually use it. But just self-hosting was not really my point, it was the degree of control that used to be common. I'd argue even myspace was much better than what we have today.


I don't think so, i was very young but my family didn't have Internet whatsoever until 2001 and didn't have broadband until 2005 (in the US). I certainly didn't know anyone self hosting anything (even my most tech savvy older relatives), but by 2005 we were all on Myspace.


There's a German black-and-white comedy "Die Feuerzangenbowle" from 1944 and most of the actors knew this was going to be their last film. They were drafted into the war right after filming wrapped up and all of them died, apart from the main star.


You may be thinking of a different film, as all the cast members listed on wikipedia[0] are stated to have died after 1945.

The trivia section of the German wiki page of the same film says there's a disputed rumour that the film was prolonged to help the young extras avoid conscription.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Feuerzangenbowle_(1944_fil...


Thank you for pointing that out! I think that's the rumor I heard...


Not sure it's relevant at all, but a therapist who's working with kids in a large clinic in Berlin told me that anorexia cases in kids have doubled since COVID. He said they don't have the infrastructure to treat all those kids. It's pretty dramatic. That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if a large portion of those cases were really caused by long COVID.


ello.co - what a fun and pretty social media website that was.


Yeah I was also considering that...but the most recent iOS app that I worked on was actually featured by Apple a few times, so it seemed they really liked it.

I ended up creating a new account, and got verified there, but only after a few tries and calls to support. Turns out that their AI couldn't read my European (German) ID card and some human actual had to look at it and verify me manually.


Thank you! I keep stumbling upon interesting historical footage on Youtube, only to find that it's been ruined by janky AI. I do think there's a place for AI and video restauration, but colors and 4k, with soundscape, really?


This looks really nice! I loved trello and I'm always happy to see alternatives. My two cents: I use the keyboard a lot, so when I hit "enter" on a form, e.g. to create a board, it closes the popup instead of creating that board.


Yep, the "market" is littered with Trello clones. I was also a big fan - until they went downhill (basically everything post-Atlassian). What most of the clones miss, is Trello's enormous attention to details - like excellent keyboard navigation.

What I also miss, is that with Trello, a board is a board, a list is a list, and a card is a card. The builtins are simple and flexible, the add-ons are optional. Most clones try too hard to guardrail boards into a ticket tracking system. We already have Jira for that.


How has Trello gone downhill post-Atlassian, exactly?


I'm working on a free meetup platform: https://github.com/strathausen/laundryroom.social

because I got frustrated with meetup.com


I really appreciate that the double-click on the icon button in the title bar of each window closes it. Such a nice detail! I got used to this once on windows 3.11 and Windows kept behaving like that through the versions, even though there's a dedicated close button on the right. I think the most recent versions of windows don't have this behavior anymore.


Glad you liked that small detail. I tried to re-create every detail I could find and which I personally use on Windows. I still sometimes discover things that I didn't know Windows could do which I am excited to add to my project.


I think nowadays it acts like clicking the maximize button rather than clicking the close button. Just as useful IMO but much safer. Apps can, of course, override the behavior though.


On Windows 10 which is my daily driver, clicking the icon still closes the window.


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