🧵Blog Post 4: Widgets from Another Lifetime

 

🧵Blog Post 4: Widgets from Another Lifetime

Or: I Think That Blogroll Link Is to a Defunct GeoCities Page

Let’s talk widgets. I once had an idea for a new blog style. I worked on it for a little bit. I came up with something.

The sidebar included:

• A blogroll with links to writers who haven’t posted since 2013.

• A broken image that once proudly said “Subscribe to my RSS feed.”

• A hit counter that I think is still working, but I haven’t clicked on it in fear it may bite.

• A quote box that autoloads a single aphorism: “Be yourself; everyone else is taken.” Very 2009. Possibly Oscar Wilde. Possibly my high school teacher. Who knows?

Then, I came right back to this blog.

I’ve considered cleaning this up.

But then I think: isn’t this history?
A digital dig site?
Future archaeologists will stumble across Delfik Orakle and say, “Ah yes, a pre-Instagramian info-hoarder. Fascinating.”

I’ve grown fond of the mess. The widgets are like fossils.
Ugly, irrelevant fossils.
But still fossils.