Spouse and I still occasionally reference "The last page of the Internet" - nice to see it here.

If anyone wants a concrete middle ground: I host a small static site behind a Cloudflare named tunnel from a home box — no paid hosting, fixed domain, full raw logs. The one trap I hit was analytics: dashboards reported hundreds of 'unique visitors' until I filtered the raw log and found most were crawlers and my own monitoring probes. Raw logs beat dashboards for tiny sites.

I love the soap recipes!

Rogue Scholar is an open access archive and registry for science blogs. It preserves science blog posts, makes them citable via DOI, and ensures their long-term discoverability alongside formal scholarly literature.

https://rogue-scholar.org/overview

For context:

This is the home of the Tiny Awards, which, since 2023, has celebrated the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web.

The Tiny Awards exist because we thought it was important to shine a spotlight on the sorts of personal web projects that tend to get overlooked by more traditional, larger or more commercial awards.

The link is for voting, but it also gives you links to the sites to vote on, so even if you do not want to vote, lots of cool small sites here.

I think it was like the boot sector and stuff like that.

Not sure 98 did. Think that was XP.

I can clearly remember watching the temporary area[s] getting larger and more efficient as the defrag started to make progress. I can also remember asking where the defrag tool was in linux back in cica 2000

Ah, temp relocated, yes. That makes sense. Since it is also what is missing here. And I think it was a lighter shade of blue than final relocated.

unread, read and temp relocated and final relocated?,

I'm trying to remember, I feel like yes, but I can't think of what they would have designated. Maybe compressed data?

Wasn't there several colors too?

The healthiest option for x11 is https://github.com/BujjuIsABee/shimelinux , there is a Wayland engine but I cannot assert it to be good bc I just don't have the bandwidth to switch to Wayland

Hmm, I appreciate it, but it's not moving data out of the way to clear soon to be used space. And when it's reading the fragmented data, it's reading it backwards... the fragmented data should probably already have been written forwards, so it should grab it in the same order it is writing it to the defragmented section.

And just for flavour, since even light background tasks in those days would have influenced it, could add a bit of random latency to each operation with small chances of notable latency, like a 1% chance of 2-3 second chunks of wait time. With an appropriate hard drive sound.

There is/was some shimeji port for linux, though idk if there's any for wayland nowadays

Windows? Why would anyone want that?

It's interesting. First time I've seen a fetizen reference Ghidra. How good is it for scanning Android apps for blobs or other bad wares? You ever scan anything you install with it? I want to play with it and don't know where to start.

Let's bring back Webrings

This person has a collection of sites about a wide variety of things. Some of them are unavailable now, but many are still up. Here's another: https://zenseeker.net/Previa/PreviaMaintenance-DriveTrain.htm

There is also a Japanese Youtube channel that's been doing this for 19 years: https://www.youtube.com/@tontantin/videos

Edit: apparently he's been at it since 1997, but started with only written reviews on https://i-ramen.net/

Epic and I enjoy it very much. Loads up in w3m and my browser.