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| Since resurrecting this site in 2022, I decided to still
keep this old, "Awards" page, and provide a bit of an
explanation for it, also. Most of the sites that awarded
my site with their award are now gone, however, I'll still
keep them around since thinking about it so many years
later, this is something that was a part of the early
internet that seems to be gone, now. Awards were
interesting at one point, they were a way to show
appreciation for another site, get their, "Stamp of
approval", so to say. Though, being older now, and
thinking about it, it was also a bit of a snub to myself,
when a site would not issue me an award, lol. Many sites
didn't seem to care too much, and would just issue them to
nearly anyone as long as they fit their category, as it
did function like a banner link. When I was younger the awards were nice, I enjoyed it when a larger site would give me their seal of approval. At one point I issued an award, and I will add a link near the bottom of this page for that. Thinking about it, so many years later, it was a nice gesture that seems to be lost nowadays. The award provided some encouragement to people, to keep going with their site, and also functioned as a banner link for the website issuing the award. I am not too sure when awards started to not be a, "Thing", however looking at the history of them here, the ones I received and gave out, it seems to be sometime around the early 2000s. The changes in the internet during that time, would have probably been the coming of, "Social Media" sites. People stopped creating, or trying to create, their own websites, and went to the social media type sites, or the journaling sites. With those type of sites, they did provide an easy way for people to create an online presence. Not as much flexibility, however it did make things easy for many people. After that, personal sites seemed to fade away. Enjoy this bit of history! |
