It’s like a mix of

  • personal blog
  • wikis and tutorials about a specific subject
  • bookmarks list
  • random cool stuff : music playlists, fav movies…etc
  • portfolio projects
  • contact information

All of this is put together by one person, I know these types of websites have a name, I forgot what they’re called ?

Edit: Indie webpage

    • 乇ㄥ乇¢ㄒ尺ㄖ@infosec.pubOP
      5·
      1 year ago

      well it is personal, but it goes way beyond personal stuff, like projects and ideas, and sources ( links ) to other sources, these websites are gold mines

      • HollandJim@lemmy.world
        23·
        1 year ago

        That’s what a Personal site was in the beginning, as most “bloggers” were more technically inclined. We posted what we were interested in.

      • aard@kyu.de
        8·
        1 year ago

        This all is personal stuff. A lot of us started their pages before things like wikis or blogs existed, so the content often has elements of what you’d later find there - and depending on if it makes sense or not a blog may have been added later on, or not. Or still is not what would be considered a classical blog, but just an easier way of updating regular content.

      • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        There aren’t concrete definitions around this, but I might categorize it as

        • personal site: a website by one person with their work / artistic expression / whatever they want to put on a site that they alone control
          • portfolio / resume site, subtype of the personal site where the main topic is the person
      • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        They used to be like that even in the 90’s. Yes, some of the sftuff on them is info about the person, but generally, they’re some tech savvy person that has some personal projects on the side that just wants to share with the world (some sort of a meter, firmware hacks, patchers, etc.). In general, yes, it’s a gold mine of info.

        Too bad they’re kinda defunct now with the advent of social media… there were a lot of cool projects on personal websites.

        I think git sites are more like what personal websites used to be back then. GitHub in particular makes this very easy with GitHub pages. Got a cool project you wanna share? Make a small web page for it, bam, your project has a web page 😉.

    • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Yep, personal website/homepage. They used to be quite common before the advent of social media.

      • abbadon420@lemm.ee
        11·
        1 year ago

        I’ve never heard someone call the “eternal september” the “Advent of social media”

        • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Meeh, it’s how I usually refer to the internet before 2005, 2006-ish… 2010 was the breaking point I think, it became obvious why forums and anything other than social media was dying.

          • abbadon420@lemm.ee
            2·
            1 year ago

            I agree, but those were my teenage years, so I’m inclide to not trust my opinions of those times.

  • Donebrach@lemmy.world
    9·
    1 year ago

    That is literally a blog, derivative of the word weblog or what people called their own personal websites before social media platforms existed. This is nothing new. This is literally the fundamental content of the internet.

  • CaptObvious@literature.cafe
    8·
    1 year ago

    Online, today I’d call it a personal blog or portfolio. In the days of pen-and-paper, my newsroom called it a tickler file.

  • kakes@sh.itjust.works
    71·
    1 year ago

    Just sounds like a website to me. Maybe the distinction you’re looking for is that it sounds more like a “Web 1.0” style website, before we opened the floodgates on user-generated content.

    • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      …before we opened the floodgates on user-generated content.

      You mean shitty user generated images and videos… there was user generated content before, but it wasn’t for self promotion. It was just “hey, I think this is cool, what you guys think of my project ☺️”… just people sharing ideas and other things.

      Like I remember this very cool project someone did on their geocities page, a CD-ROM converted to a CD player. For the younger generation, CD-ROMs used to have an analogue audio out cable, so basically, when you play your audio CD in your CD-ROM, the signal went through the audio card’s CD_IN connector (yes, believe it or not, AUX wasn’t the only line level input on audio cards). Some CD-ROMs even had a play/next button and a stop button on the front pannel. So what this person actually did was program an MCU to generate the ATA commands that the PC would generate, so you can basically use your CD-ROM as a standalone CD player without it being hooked to a PC. Pretty cool if you ask me ☺️. Reuse old hardware, give it new life and meaning… well, at least for a while.