I’ve been wandering around the backwoods of the internet (again), and am more than a little happy to say that the sad old days, when the only personal website I could find online was mine, are long over.
There even seems to be something of a nostalgia to the times when the internet wasn’t controlled by a few humungous data thieves. Although I’ve long connected this site to the indieweb, I was entirely unaware of other nostalgia memes such as the yesterweb, the web revival, neocities (yay!), and no doubt other principled mutterings I’ve yet to find.
Apparently, according to the web revival people, if you host an old style website, and arts & ego is certainly old, then you have to have a guest book. Well, if they say so, ….
The hiccup is that a guest book needs scripts, but arts & ego is resolutely(–ish) static. Thus one cannot be hosted here, but one can be farmed out to someone else. After a brief glance between the interwebs, I settled on smart gb, who are based in the Sweden, and thus subject to the EU’s GDPR.
If the thing works, great, I’ll splash out on the ad–free version (or write my own). If it doesn’t work, no loss, I’ll just drop the dratted thing.
Please do give it a go! Click on guest book below, fill in the forms, and penny’s your aunt.