I first registered randomelements.me.uk on the 12th Jun 2003. I’d had other sites but never had my own domain. It pointed to a self-hosted SharePoint installation on a server in my dining room. I'd been using the name since 2000 in relation to music (it was the title of my ambient proje... colinwalker.blog

@colinwalker Dude! You're letting links die? I am obliged to remind you of TBL’s legendary “Cool URIs don't change”.

@devilgate The links died 10 years ago 🙁 and the redirect was just to a “Welcome” page.

@colinwalker Oh well. This guy suggests we treat the web more like a living entity anyway, which I can kinda get behind.

@devilgate I think it depends on what the site is as well. My old blog really wasn’t worth saving 😉

@devilgate Wasn’t me. Must be a different Colin.

@devilgate I only get about 3 redirects a month and that’s usually for a long broken image link on an old forum. Someone linked directly to a picture of a ZX spectrum once and that’s all I ever see.