"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