/slashpages

The web is a free-for-all. There is no structure. No order. Only chaos. The only page that is defined is the root page (at “/”), and even that can map internally to a number of alternates (/index.html)

They are all rooted at the top-level of a heirarchal filing system, because comp si people gonna comp si. it occurs to me that it might be worth discussing why the “/” which prefixes these pages is referred to as slash and not stroke (which is a bit weird because the former is a US English thing, and as we all know, URLs were invented by a Brit — TimBL — where stoke is the UK English thing)

Gradually, a concensus of opnion, sprinked with some geek-humor, has established that some pages shpould have specific names and specific purposes.

Some nice chap codified such pages at slash Pages, and now all the cool kids are adding “/slahes” to their personal websites to humblebrag about all their common slash pages. This is just another example of the internet being one giant echo chamber and everybody being sheep and doing what’s perceived to be cool.

I am neither cool, not a kid, and I’ve had various “slash” pages for sometime now, but haven’t bother to document them, until now, in glorious alphabetical order:

/manifesto

this is my highly opionated POV on life

/manual of me

See manual-of-me-short-introduction.

/now

A “/now” page informs the reader about what the author is focused on at this point in their life. For more, see What is a “now page”?

/who

Everybody else will call this an “/about”, but to me that is more of a corporate thing. This is a personal site, so my ego demands I put things on a /who page.

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