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"When I'm gone"

Published on 2025/02/18 | Revised on 2025-03-14

"I often wonder how many webmasters are long since reposed... their sites frozen like amber with heirs paying hosting fees as a memorial" - a random hacker news poster

websites of deadmen and women

Uriel (1982-2012)

Zefram (1977-2025)

Don Lancaster (1939-2023)

Erik Naggum (1965-2009)

George Coulouris (1937-2024)

Stevalyn Gloria Henderson-Brevard (1944-2023)

Myself

Does a good captain always goes down with their ship?

To most onlookers, this site is just another footnote in the annals of tech-geekery

I don't even think it qualifies for that spot - I don't engage in tech forums or poke my head around in open-source (except for werc)

But to my close friends, learning how to get a website up-and-going from the ground up was something that kept me sane after failing the college entrance exams, and having to (after my parents twisted my arm) resit them - only to slightly improve my grades - and not go to university.

All my friends would end up going to uni - and me I was cooped up in my room a lot

So - as for when I'm gone - I've given detailed instructions to my friend Arif on how to keep this rustbucket up and going