do you ever think about how your neopets profile page gave you more freedom to use html for customization than literally any modern social media website
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we straight up used to type raw html into text fields and just expect websites to display it for us. incredible. that probably isn’t coming back ever
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even phpBB forums let you bold, italicize, and freely insert inline images and inline links with BBcode, none of which you can do on, say, twitter or facebook
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the ultimate test of digital freedom is whether you can embed a MIDI of your favorite music from dragon ball Z and i will die on this hill
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are there any modern versions of geocities or angelfire still working? what’s the fastest and cheapest way i can put up a page of raw html in 2021?
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Go back into academia, make html in emacs, save it to ~[yourname]/public/index.html, done
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haha it's been 3 years but my berkeley page is still up! i don't know if i can edit it anymore though
math.berkeley.edu/~qchu/
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Why did you leave if you don't mind me asking?
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it's a long story and i never really got around to writing it up anywhere. short version is i was very depressed and also realized i just didn't care that much about doing math anymore
Thanks. FWIW, I always enjoyed your point of view and insight on MathOverflow.
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