# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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#     https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt                View all twts.
#     https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri  View all mentions for uri.
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kat
yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz
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this is epic https://lmnt.me/blog/how-to-make-a-damn-website.html
kat
yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz
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this is epic https://lmnt.me/blog/how-to-make-a-damn-website.html
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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@kat I approve! That's how I learned HTML (version 4 at the time and XHTML shortly after) and making websites, too. Some of them are still made like this to this day. Hand-written HTML. Hardly any <div> and class nonsense. I can't remember with which editor I started out with, but I upgraded to Webweaver (later renamed to Webcraft) quickly. Yeah, this were the times when there was just a single computer for the whole family.

Free hosting on Arcor, Freenet and I don't know anymore how they were all called. Like this author, I uploaded everything via FTP. Oh dear, when was the last time I used that? And I had registered plenty of free .de.vu domains.

Being on Windows at the time, everything was ISO-8859-1 for me. No UTF-8, I don't think I've heard about it back then.

Later, I wrote my own CMSes in PHP. Man, were they bad in retrospect. :-D Of course, MySQL databases were used as backends. I still exactly know the moment I read the first time about SQL injections. I tried it on my own CMS login and was shocked when I could just break in. The very next thing I did was to lock down everything with an .htaccess until I actually fixed my broken PHP code. Hahaha, good memories.

I swear by Atom or RSS feeds. Many of my sites offer them. I daily consume feeds, they're just great.
suitechic
yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz
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@kat oh, great share!
kat
yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz
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@lyse wow what a great story! i still use FTP (well, SFTP) all the time lol, just to transfer files between servers quickly. it's super handy!

writing your own CMS sounds kickass omg... mysql the legend
kat
yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz
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@lyse wow what a great story! i still use FTP (well, SFTP) all the time lol, just to transfer files between servers quickly. it's super handy!

writing your own CMS sounds kickass omg... mysql the legend
kat
yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz
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@suitechic it's a great post!
kat
yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz
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@suitechic it's a great post!
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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@kat Only scp/rsync for me. :-) But I remember there is one server that only provides SFTP access. :-/