Peter Pan's Home Page... still 'flying' :-) (Score 1)

I haven't been on slashdot for so long, I completely forgot all my credentials. But I had to rejoin and comment after seeing this article. I'm the "Peter Pan" guy from internet tales of yore. But 25 years after beginning, from back in the days when the biggest challenge was being compatible with IE 4 and Netscape 4, my "iconic" (at least i think it is) site is still up and running. (Assuming I'm allowed to share a link, its at https://peterpan.pixyland.org.... As crazy and self serving as the site may seem, I believe it has encouraged a lot of folks to take a chance, and find safe places to express themselves. But despite wrestling with the necessary coding changes as best I could, continuing my forced education into the many differences back then (everyone's DAW, version of Javascript, and HTML rendering was very different then), I did my best to keep fixing, and keep adding. But in line with the discussion here, all my pages were hand coded, and I never joined the WordPress or Joomla clubs, or use of any web builder software. I was fortunate to win a webby award in 2001, and one of the prize/awards was a full adobe suite, including (I think it was called ) "Dreamweaver?" Anyway I tried building a page or two with it and said NO!!!!!!!. The way the code was structured it posed the following problem: It's much quicker to make a page, but 10X harder to tweak and figure out how it worked, So I continued to build my own libraries and templates. I started trying to make it all Mobil friendly and responsive during the pandemic, but there were so many pages I never quite finished and still have a handful to get around to. But I guess what my point is, to this day I get happy compliments about the old school flavor and colorful design from visitors. And I do think it is a shame that it has become sufficiently complicated, that few ordinary (or crazy) folks like myself to build sites, without the use of builder tools. And I am glad that these tools exist and make it easier. But they often lack the built in resources to allow a user to create any content not added from a drop down menu. And worse, too many of these easy systems make it impossible for the participant to move their site elsewhere. Well, at least orgs like "lets encrypt" have made it easier for every hobbyist to have sites the don't scare visitors away with a "THIS SITE IS NOT SECURE". Now the only thing I wish for was some way of having legacy. I've put so much into my site, and unlike an artists paintings it must all go away once hosting payments stop. I say I', Peter Pan, but I'll soon cross 72 y/o, and one never knows how much time there is ahead. But at least I can move my music out into the web of streaming services, and I think some orgs out there are preserving pages. But anyway, thanks for reading, and LONG LIVE THE WEB! :-). PS... I've not made my email addy included in this post. Thanks for understanding. I've included my site url, which has a contact form in the NAV bar, and always respond to messages from there, and now that I'm back on slashdot I'll certainly look in on any comments to this post..