> Every person on the planet should have their own website, on their own domain name, and blog about whatever they want.
Let's keep in mind that most people don't have access to basic hygiene and food safety.
> Everyone should be writing in public.
I never understood why this kind of injonctions for us to do things keep on coming up to the front page of HN. I understand that they make good titles, though.
> “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!”
I vaguely know that my grand-grand-grand-father was a farrier in one of the Napoleons' army and was a kind man, my children will vaguely know it as well. We'll all die and be forgotten, I think that's OK.
There is also no guarantee that archive.org will survive a couple decades. But a notebook in the attic definitely will.
Let's keep in mind that most people don't have access to basic hygiene and food safety.
> Everyone should be writing in public.
I never understood why this kind of injonctions for us to do things keep on coming up to the front page of HN. I understand that they make good titles, though.
> “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!”
I vaguely know that my grand-grand-grand-father was a farrier in one of the Napoleons' army and was a kind man, my children will vaguely know it as well. We'll all die and be forgotten, I think that's OK.
There is also no guarantee that archive.org will survive a couple decades. But a notebook in the attic definitely will.