You started your site—with its wonderful quotations & Victorian sexual factoids pages—a year before I started mine. Perhaps there ought to be an Order of Authors of Ancient Website (Oh awe) to commemorate those who have, like us, single-handedly maintained websites for 25 years or more. Suggestions?
Victorian Turkish Baths
Still maintaining/updating (by hand) my website, and some of it rather languishes these days, but I am still finding bits and pieces of references to add to the Literary Abortion page www.lesleyahall.net/abortion.htm
terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info
derek guy
Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.
Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.