I decided to clean up some old projects that never went anywhere but still got their own domains. Quite silly, really. Here's what got the boot:
- viele-bunte-bilder.de - this was what the Schockwellenreiter is now building, a simple gallery software (built in Django) with RSS and all. It was quite good, but I never updated it and never added any pictures. Maybe the whole system will be revived under a different address, but somehow I don't feel like building picture websites.
- hugoesk.de - a photoblog I started and then neglected for years. Somehow pointless to have a separate domain just for that.
- ürl.de - don't ask. I just thought it was funny back then. Yeah, I'm a kid at heart. And no, it never had any real content.
- whisky-and-whiskey.de - I used this so little that even I constantly forgot about it. And to be honest: who needs another domain with outdated information about whiskey?
Well. I still have a few candidates on the chopping block, let's see if more gets cleaned up. Of course, you get attached to one or another address - for example, I still don't know if I'll also get rid of leicaesk.de. I haven't uploaded any changes there in ages and even though I love my Leica, I hate scanning negatives.
Somewhere, this silly domain hoarding is pointless - you can just make subdirectories under one domain and neatly link everything. Makes much more sense that way (e.g., instead of hugoesk.de, I also have pictures in rfc1437.de - so what's the point?).
For someone like me who still has his very first homepage online (oh shit, that thing is 10 years old), this is quite a revolutionary step to destroy data on the web ...
And the National Library can kiss my pixelated ass because of the domains - or just use archive.org like everyone else.