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Hear Ye!
Personal blog · hearye.orgsecurityculture
Hear Ye! is a personal blog at hearye.org about security and culture. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's writing on early web history, including a 1999 post explaining 'e/n' sites, the pre-'blog' term for personal sites. One commenter calls the trolling article a fun read.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /1999/05/whats-an-en-site/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-03-15
What Hacker News says?
Fun read. The article mentions: > “e/n” sites (which was what blogs were sometimes called before the term “blog” had gained wider adoption) Does 'e/n' stand for something? This 1999 post [0] calls it 'Everything and Nothing', but I can't find anything else on it, is that right? It says: > This was probably influenced by the number of EBG-like sites popping up with the words “everything” or “nothing” in their name. E…
Comment linking /1999/05/whats-an-en-site/
on “Trolling the Entire Internet”Submitted Impressions of a week in Tokyo as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFor anyone intrigued by the term, maybe this would help: http://www.hearye.org/1999/05/whats-an-en-site/ – bear in mind 1999 predates the popular use of the term "blog" (which appeared only in that same year) but e/n sites were, more often than not, what we'd call blogs now.
Comment linking /1999/05/whats-an-en-site/
on “Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died”Submitted A Detailed Analysis of Color's Privacy Practices as a story · 1 points
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