Another Slice of Dutch Internet History There has been a long list of failed internet technologies over the past few decades. Much like the current AI rush, the early internet was a bit of a Wild West. People had many ideas and tried almost anything to see what would stick. One of those failed technologies was WebTV. For a short time, it looked as though this piece of technology might also find its way into Dutch homes. Except it didn’t. This is the story of how WebTV was killed before it even launched in the Netherlands, including what I consider […]
Homelab shenanigans
Some more homelab shenanigans After setting up my to Proxmox nodes (not a cluster yet: I am still exploring how to set this up) and messing around a bit with it, I went full-out. After all; if you have the hardware why not use it? So what have I set up so far? So, what did we accomplish so far? Well a bit of a list actually. It cost me a couple of weekends working on this, but the result is kind of satisfying so far. All in all I: Setup Immich which has been great as a Google Photos […]
Nostalgia is not about how things were
Nostalgia is not about how things were: It’s about how we remember them. I think we like to believe nostalgia is a faithful archive – a clean backup of the past we can mount and browse at will. But it isn’t. It’s more like a compressed snapshot: lossy, selective, and quietly edited over time. What we remember is rarely the full system state. The frustration, delays, the things that didn’t work out – they all get filtered out. What remains are the highlights: the warmth of a familiar routine, the excitement of discovery, the comfort of things that felt simpler […]
ZionWiki has arrived
Just to let you all know: this Friday I added my own Wiki to my webserver. After I tried PHPwiki (which was very hard to configure and looked real ugly) I decided to install the #1 Wiki: MediaWiki. This is the same software that they run for Wikipedia and lot’s of other Wiki sites. I am going to dedicate my ZionWiki to the Serendipity (s9y) Blogging software and a bit about Ubuntu Linux. The Serendipity website has its own Wiki, but I think it doesn’t look good like a Wiki and I find it hard to search and find stuff. […]
10 years online – my story
I would almost have forgotten it, but 2005 marks my 10th anniversary of being “online”. To be more accurate: from approximately 1993 till 1995 I was ‘semi-online’ using a dial-up connection to some Dutch bulletin boards like “Utopia” (later to become the first Dutch Internet provider called XS4ALL). I also had my own BBS (called WindowsBBS) using the Spitfire BBS software version 3.4. Then, in 1995 I started working for an Internet company called “Riverland Networks” and this marked my first steps on, what we now know as the “Internet”. Looking back it is hard to imagine my life without […]
Tripod’s messing up!
Tripod’s messing up! For those that know my webpage a bit longer and have visted my webplace more often, know that I had my share of problems with Tripod. Ok, its free and you get 20meg of diskspace (10 more than with my own ISP – UPC) and 1 gig of traffic for free a month, but they do mess up a lot. Very annoying! Well, they did it again! they deleted my vandegoor.tripod.com account! I have no idea why except when I tried to access it I got this message that the user was deleted becasuse of some violation! […]
Getting there
It feels like the war can break out this week. Bush’s war rhetoric isn’t going to end soon and we just know he wants to start a war. Whats up with that and whats up with Korea? Are the US afraid to tackle the problems they have with Iraq by diplomacy? They are not doing anything war-like against Korea. Movie freak I watched Donnie Darko again the day before yesterday. Then I gave the film to a colleague of mine to watch it: he liked it too. I will buy this movie soon. Its about $20 but worth every penny. […]