I built my original website on my company site, d6.com, in 1997 using emacs and plain old html, and then I proceeded to not update it for 9 years. The relatively small friction of having to telnet to the server, edit the pages, or copy them back and forth was enough to disincent me from updating at all.
When I started thinking about finally updating my site again,
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