Why does this site still exist? why do I do this?
When I started all this, blogging was cool. We were on Diary-X and Livejournal and we shared our thoughts and read those of interesting people. But self-hosting was legit. You had your own .com. You had a site of your own. You had vanity email addresses. You weren’t just some dingus with an Aol.com email.
Since that time, blogs and forums collapsed into social media, and I’ve already made my thoughts on social media known. So why is this still here? Am I stubbornly resisting the passage of time? Am I leading by example? Would anyone care either way? would anyone even notice?
There’s no plan for this stuff. When I die, I suppose it’ll keep going until either the annual hosting charge fails or the annual domain renewal fails. After one goes, the other will soon follow. And then it’s gone. Forever. Like so many other dead sites. There will be no monument to my existence. The dollars stop moving and what had been here will be no more.
And what is this doing for me anyway? It’s long stopped being a place for me to deposit thoughts and wisdom. It’s a collection of some lists of video games to serve my own failing memory. The email addresses I have here have been replaced by gmail a long time ago.
So I think it’s time to call it. Maybe I keep paying the hosting because it’s cheap. Maybe I keep the domain because I’ve owned it for literal decades. But this should be shuttered until I think of something interesting to do with it.
So goodnight.