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Tuesday, July 21st

Post By: Nathaniel Carman

Pointer Server Upgrades and a new "tradition"?

Here at NDC-World, we try to make viewing this page as tolerable as possible no matter who you are, from the sweatiest of gamers to the most souless retail employees. This is why we've been doing some work behind the scenes to make this site more enjoyable which could let me add more features like a comments section or some wacky interactable things to this site soon.

What does that actually mean??
Part of these upgrades involves learning Python, an absolutely terrible programming language designed to make your life as miserable as possible. Luckily, it's not nearly as bad as every other backend programming language ever made. I chose it because it's actually readable, makes adding interaction stuff to this site easy, and actually runs on the server I host this site on (pictured below).


PDP-11 Computer
The server that NDC-World is hosted on. Probably runs better than whatever crapbox PC you're reading this on.

A new tradition?
As the owner of this website, I'm personally responsible for keeping it relevant by putting content on it that will keep it alive. I don't want to be like modern SomethingAwful which has become effectively a corpse being paraded around by the ~4 active users still posting on that graveyard of a website. To keep my site relevant, I'm creating a new tradition that I call the "Media of the Week". How original. I'll upload either a video or a music file of something I find cool for you people to look at. Alternatively, I might go LARP as SomethingAwful even more and do a Protoweb link of the day if I feel like it. This should keep the site more alive and interesting to look at. Anyways, I gotta go walk my dog, so I'm going to cut this update post here. Sorry for yet another short update, unlike some people on the internet, I actually have a life that I want to indulge in from time to time. Toodles.