>This is not a place to mourn a past you never knew.
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>...
>This is a website. A simple website, a web-site on the Internet, made with HTML and CSS.
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>This is not a place reconstructed from something else.
>This is not a reaction to technological changes, current events, political topics...
>This is a website, with text, and images, and links to who knows where, as things used to be and, to some extent, as things still are,
>Because this, all of this that you have in front of you, never left.
>A few of us--yes, you are included in us--are on our knees, fingers interlocked, pushing down-up, down-up on the too-still chest of the living machine we left to rust.
>...
>And its heart still beats.
>A simple website, one cell in the living machine, yet still
>A simple website.
>As far as I know, all members of my family had made their way to the New World by 1907.
>And, as far as I know, we're not very adventurous, either.
>There are more stories of working than exploring among the branches of my family tree.
>We have a history of keeping the machines of our days alive, of building new cells and tending to existing ones.
>I followed in all of their footsteps.
Monday, Week 1, 01:59 - A Very Simple Website (AVSM) created.