Amin Eftegarie makes an excellent point on personal websites and Archive.org — that once you publish something online, there are good chances that it would become eternally available via Archive.org. On the other hand, content you publish inside walled gardens like social media may vanish after a handful of years of account activity or be never indexed by search engine robots. Go ahead! Register your domain name, host a website and leave your mark forever!
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https://eftegarie.com/every-person-on-the-planet-should-have-their-own-website/
Every person on the planet should have their own website, on their own domain name, and blog about whatever they want.
I’ve had my own website since I was 13. I will not tell you the domain name because it contained some cringe ass shit that’s still visible on archive.org. But that’s not the point, at least I was playing around, unrestricted. I registered a domain name with shared hosting.
Everyone should be writing in public. It may be about work, family, a lifelong obsession with a certain subject, random observations, photo albums, music you produced, your favorite quotes, etc.
It will be safely kept in archive.org for your ancestors to investigate and ponder on.
And they will. Even if most of your future offspring are normies, at some point, it’s nearly guaranteed that someone will discover your old blog and share it with the family.
“Hey, I have a crazy story. I found this website today. There used to be this person who did this and that. And he’s our grand-grand-grand-father!”
Now imagine if you had access to interesting details about your great-grandmother’s sister, or brother, or whatever. Wouldn’t you want to, at least for once, look into, and share the highlights with your family?
July 6, 2023
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