For the past week, my primary goal has been to merge all the core data together, avoiding copy blocks as pictured above. I’ve been mostly successful at this, although I might have had to call upon the backup from last week a few times. It’s very easy to enable autopilot and accidentally overwrite all of Heartland by replacing instead of merging. Thankfully, that’s now water under the bridge and we have arrived at…
That’s right, the core has been merged
The neighborhoods are all in one place and now have correct TitleCase (see above). MotorCity is no longer motorcity or motorCity. Trying to visit an incorrect title now invokes Apache’s mod_speling to boot you into the right directory. Previously when we had a mish-mash of lowercase, and uppercase letters it would result in some quirky behaviour. YahooIDs have been cleared out and contain only usernames now. YahooIDs have not had their case switched to lowercase as I haven’t found the right command to do it… yet.
The pictures are (mostly) merged
In the image above we can see clipart tiled backgrounds making an appearance which makes text a lot easier on the eyes. I’ve been thinking about implementing a calibration page to help get the best 800x600 experience on modern browsers as some of the tiling tends to, well tile I guess, vertically making the page look like sloppy construction.
There’s now a GeoCities favicon.ico in the title bar. It looks like the favicon standard wasn’t around until the late 1990s when GeoCities rebranded, just prior to Yahoo! takeover.
Since just before 7am we have been rebuilding the sitemap.xml to reflect the lack of empty folders and blank index.html files. This will likely take the rest of the day.
After this has completed, I’ve allocated some time to spend browsing the GeoCities via Jump™. I’ll live stream this browsing session over one of my YouTube channels. This will be done with the MiSTer which feels like a 486 running at 33MHz. Armed with Windows 98 and Internet Explorer 5.0, I’ll dial into the world wide web (WWW) through my two Banksia SP56 modems at ~28.8k. I’ve got an MT32-pi hooked up so I’ll be rocking out to any MIDIs I come across. Stay tuned! 