Governing a country (or "commonwealth") as a "monarch" for over 70 years is a lot, today it's 9/11, but one milestone you likely did not hear of is TechDirt turning 25. Earlier this year my personal site turned 20, Tux Machines turned 18 (to be clear, I'm not that site's founder!), and this site, Techrights, turns 16 in about 8 weeks from now. The site is as active as ever and it produces code like never before (thousands of lines of code per month in some months).

"I'm rather certain this site too will turn 25, even if the World Wide Web isn't its primary protocol anymore. We're constantly adapting."We're not joking or provoking when we say that the future of the World Wide Web isn't bright. There are several factors contributing to this demise and many data points proving the demise.

Thankfully, as far as Techrights is concerned, we're no longer dependent on the World Wide Web. While working on the new Tux Machines we've made a Content Management System (CMS) that treats Gemini like a first-class citizen, not merely a by-product. Later this year we'll deploy the same here, whereupon this site will be "natively" more than just the World Wide Web. In recent months we've been busy behind the scenes (the back end) working to make this a reality.

I'm rather certain this site too will turn 25, even if the World Wide Web isn't its primary protocol anymore. We're constantly adapting.

Happy birthday to TechDirt and long live activism/citizen journalism online. We recently passed 34,500 blog posts (now 34,513) and we expect 50,000 one day, even if WordPress is trying to herd people into bloatware with a universal back door (we'll probably have a new CMS in place by the end of the year). As a matter of full disclosure (on the record), my health is OK, we have additional people capable of running Techrights, and financially we're secure for at least a decade. ⬆