whoami edit
tl;dr - don't waste your time reading any further
I began participating in Wikipedia in roughly 2005, around the same time that I started my own website (chrisheath.us).
Back then, I had recently opened up my own blog but I didn't say much on it. Like the title of the page said, it was mostly a link blog of my favorites from digg. Raise your hand if you remember digg.com... Now keep your hand raised if you had an account and participated... Nice...
Recently (2018) I salvaged the content from my last WordPress database backup by writing a relatively short BASH script to grab just the post contents, titles, and dates from the SQL and create new flat HTML pages. That archive of Heathbar's Crunch had a lot of broken links and I did my best to insert Wayback_Machine links where possible and remove as much Link_rot as possible.
Digg wasn't my first (nor my last) online community but it was the largest (at the time)... ... if you don't count AOL ... and I would argue, (legal - not childish) that AOL wasn't a community there were communities on AOL and while at the time many of them weren't small but compared to digg? (again, at the time.... after I left digg I went to friendfeed (which eventually became the real-time backend for facebook).... and now I find myself a nomad... searching for a new community to feel a part of whether it be IRC channel or Wikipedia:Talk pages.
ok so either you get my point, agreed already, or still want to argue 'still want to argue'? 'none of the above'? please, please, please contact me if that's you (or if you can explain to me what I meant when I originally wrote this)
- Written over the course of 14 years by Chris Heath (talk) 04:40, 24 May 2018 (UTC)