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It was a really nice idea. I wonder how often it got used. I think it was a conceptual relic of the [Jeff Goldblum era](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQmK1CnwOUI) of iMacs with instant Internet and personal webpages.


The "Jeff Goldblum" era is still alive, just not in the minds of people trying to sell cloud-based alternatives


When people say "alive" in casual conversation, they mean alive for larger amounts of people than statistical noise...


I suppose that could be an insult, if you were actually right


No, personal web pages have been replaced with Facebook accounts. Nobody wants or needs a website to show off photos and videos and personal updates anymore.


They do if they don’t want their photos of their kids plastered with ads for fart apps and other unsavory garbage, though...


But nobody in the target audience will visit it, because it's some random website and not a Facebook page. So what good is a website that's never visited?




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