Why Personal Websites Are Coming Back
Why Personal Websites Are Coming Back Permalink September 14, 2026 · 7 min read · by nickb tags: blogging , independent web , personal websites , platforms , RSS For a while, the personal website looked like a leftover from an earlier Internet. In the 1990s and early 2000s, having your own home page was fairly normal for anyone who spent much time online. Internet providers often included a little web space with an account.
- ▪Why Personal Websites Are Coming Back Permalink September 14, 2026 · 7 min read · by nickb tags: blogging , independent web , personal websites , platforms , RSS For a while, the personal website looked like a leftover from an earlier Inter
- ▪In the 1990s and early 2000s, having your own home page was fairly normal for anyone who spent much time online.
- ▪Internet providers often included a little web space with an account.
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| Original publisher | Dead Parrot BBS |
| Canonical URL | https://deadparrotbbs.com/why-personal-websites-are-coming-back/ |
| Publication time | Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:27:50 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-15T17:51:52.487Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-15T17:51:52.487Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | yTnifI32l1DJ · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Why Personal Websites Are Coming Back Permalink September 14, 2026 · 7 min read · by nickb tags: blogging , independent web , personal websites , platforms , RSS For a while, the personal website looked like a leftover from an earlier Internet. In the 1990s and early 2000s, having your own home page was fairly normal for anyone who spent much time online. Internet providers often included a little web space with an account. Services such as GeoCities made it possible for ordinary people to put up pages about their hobbies, families, favorite bands, computers, pets, or whatever else interested them. The results weren’t always pretty.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Dead Parrot BBS.
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