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
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 😉.