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It's been a long time ! Nearly 30 years since I first made a personal page. At that time web technology was different, and the web itself was very different : very few corporate sites, lots of personal pages, no ads everywhere...
In their personal pages, people were sharing their interests and passions. I want this page to have the same spirit, it will be a place where I share my centers of interest, mostly around computing and technology. It's more like a biography than a blog with technical articles (you'll find some in the Misc section).
I also want this page to be technically simple, just html and css, minimal use of javascript, no use of whatever framework. No use of LLM for translations, these are my own words (I'm French). The orange nerd is not my nickname, just a name that came in my head when I was seeking for a site name. I love the orange color.
About me
My name is Nicolas, I live in north of France, I'm interested in electronics and computers (new and old) since my teenage. I started with a 8 bits Amstrad CPC6128 in the 80s, then went 16 bits with an Amiga 600 in the early 90s and switched to a 32 bits PC in the end of the 90s.
For communications, I spent a lot of time on citizen band in the early 90s, then when I got internet in the late 90s I fell in love with IRC. I have never been very active on facebook, deleted my twitter (X) account, and nowadays my social media of choice is mastodon.