After a long time of procastination 😁, I finally settle down to have my page up again. This will be the place where I share my interests and moments in the world e.g coding💻️, music🎶, sport🏅 etc…
Back to my time in junior highschool, around 2002 2003 when I was in grade 7 or 8, the Internet was becoming popular in Vietnam. We young pupils, for the first time, discovered a whole new cheerful hobby which is either a game or a new way to communicate with others and express our thinkings: blog.
At that time, among blogging platforms, Yahoo! 360 was really a hitch! 😍
The site provided all the features that you can wish for to write and share blogs: a fully integrated rich-text editor, advanced HTML editor, ability to embed your custom HTML, CSS, and even some Javascript (😆 haha yes, and at that time it was a very good idea to do that), personal bio, friends list etc… Everyone talked about it, shared every single block of CSS and Javscript code for decorating the site with most colorful effects 😆. As that time, it was really awkward if you didn’t know about 360. All the boys in class became IT experts in the girls’ eyes 😎, who usually discovered hidden things on the blog platform (which mostly were Javascript and CSS). Maybe, that was our very first IT course, which we surprisingly learned very well 🤭. Seriously, if we ever went to any IT university at that time, might be we could finish it with high grade 🤣.
The 360 is really an important piece of childhood memory of all the 8x and first 9x kids. I was one of them. I still remember that I wrote many things about life, study, family, friends, funny things, my junior perspective about the world and, of course, emotions and relationship too 🤭. We published things without concerning about privacy, security, or how the world “judged” us 🤭. It may sound stupid now but if I have to choose I would do it exactly the same again 😁, and I believe the others would too.
Then, one day, Yahoo announced that they would shutdown the 360 service 😢. The company was in a bad situation. I don’t remember exactly the event but the company’s revenue was going down, and they lost some of their porfolios (searching, mailing, social network including 360 service) to the competitors such as Google, Microsoft, Facebook etc… We didn’t really care about the technologies but the closing of 360 was really a shocked to many of us. The reason is closing the service means all the articles will be gone 😭.
After 360, it was a wave of other social networks. Many services penetrated into Vietnamese market such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, some local services etc… And recently, along with the emerging number of smartphone generation services such as Youtube, Tiktok, Instagram etc… people have more and more options to communicate with the world, and expose their personal daily life easier than ever before. However, I still don’t find any of them where I can write things like I did before. The social networks now are becoming just faster and shorter. It is not really what I have been looking for.
A few years ago, I tried some blogging platforms such as Blogger, Wordpress etc… but I still didn’t find my freedom or inspiration to write things like before. So after a long procastination (mainly because of being lazy 😁), I come up with setting up this personal page. I want a completely personal page where I can control (and own) my content, freely customized layout, and learn some new things 🤩.
That’s how I ended up with this site. It is created with:
- Jekyll: the static page blog engine.
- Jekyll-TeXt-Theme: this saves me a lot of time for layout and design 😍.
I have learned a lot of thing from setting up this site about Jekyll, Octopress, Jekyll-TeXt-them, how to config domain name on namecheap, Nginx, HTTPS with letencrypt. I will write about them in my coding category on this site 🤭.
This site will be my blog about my interests in life such as coding, sport, music, food etc… or just simply some funny things for my friends and maybe useful for you too if you find this hidden dungeon on the Internet 😁.
Soooo, welcome to my worldddd!🎇🎇🎇