Why did I make this website? Here are a few partial answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Remember when we were kids and no one had really figured out the internet? We made weird screen names and forums without much of a purpose. I feel like social media mostly replaced that. I was fine with it for a while, but I haven’t used social media much in about a decade. I had been casually thinking about doing this for a few years, but felt inspired recently to try it during a longer work break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have several social media pages, but they don’t feel like mine. Some of them use my real name and link to people I used to know. The rest use an old screen name that carried forward an inside joke from late adolescence which I had trouble explaining to anyone who asked. The accidental confusion there was occasionally fun, but it didn’t feel like something deliberate that I had orchestrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That’s not strictly true, but if you want a *.com one, you have to dodge hundreds of website names. This served as an arbitrary but convenient filter to pass to make sure I had come up with something that would be sufficiently mine. There were many other numbers in front of “ducks.com”, but after several minutes of consideration, I confidently believe that this is the most clever number of ducks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So… there’s not really much of a purpose at all right now. But if I ever want to do something more purposeful on the internet, having this already in place will be an advantage. By lowering the future barriers to entry, it’s more likely that I would actually make the effort, instead of thinking about it for a few seconds before tapping the next video thumbnail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Why did I make this website? Here are a few partial answers. I thought it would be cool to make a website Remember when we were kids and no one had really figured out the internet? We made weird screen names and forums without much of a purpose. I feel like social media mostly replaced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-48","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eightyducks.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eightyducks.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eightyducks.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eightyducks.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eightyducks.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eightyducks.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/eightyducks.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eightyducks.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eightyducks.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}