I remember a world of computers and of humans interconnecting in “online” share groups before there was a thing called “Google” or “Yahoo” or “Bing”. Yes, I am growing old, now, but it wasn’t that long ago! When I was a teen, my first experience with “the computer” was drawing stick line figures onto a screen before me and being utterly amazed, that with a chosen script, that I could put colors between these lines on a “computer”. For reference sake, I am only presently in my 50’s.
From here, my first and only successful coding days, I learned about D-base programming, for the sake of keeping a job. Then, came the more advanced R-base programs. Then, eventually, came the pre-internet web experience for me (the days of AOL – a Jewish online community favorite), and then everything exploded technology wise beyond my personal ability to keep up. Believe me, I have tried! But, I’m still trying to understand how a simple script produced the color green in the triangle-like shape on my high school computer screen.
I am brilliant in so many ways! (I get writing things down!) If I apply my mind to it, I can copy-cat anything and everything coding. But, this had never been where my mind has been in life. So, even with personal study, I’ve always been behind this “online” curve. I’ve lived my life being the user that, if he applies himself, he can understand. But, still, I am trying to understand to this day how an inanimate object produced the color green on a TV tube screen by a simple coding.
Jump approximately thirty and a half (30+) years forward! Being one who was on the internet before there was even an “internet”, I learned to rely on there being an internet presence for my mind. Never in my online life did I even conceive of the possibility that what you put into the internet would be silenced, unavailable, un-retrievable. That is until recently! Until recently, when I discovered that everything that I’ve expressed “online” via my personal website has been “not indexed” for three years! Yes, I’ve been sharing with no one online. In my time of greatest growth as a human being, sharing with no one! I am writing to you while still trying to get indexed into the Google and Bing search engines.
Why have I been silenced? All because I am not a “webmaster” of my own personal website, devoted to tracking Google and Bing behaviors regarding my personal website, because prior to recently, as a user of the internet, you didn’t have to be a “webmaster” – even if not on a hosting server site that is intimately in with Google and Bing. So, not understanding that as a website owner that I need to be daily checking the Google and Bing server webmaster consoles for changes (something that I never had to do – before till recently), I fell victim to these changes.
I remind you that I am sharing these thoughts without yet being indexed on either Google or Bing! Because, they in their infamous online supremacy are not worried about my online problems. When they can get to me, they will get to me … and, then, tell me next why they still haven’t indexed yet, because of whatever code reason to my most best attempted updates to all my previously indexed websites! Online freedom and independence is long gone, since the 21st century internet rolled around. If you’re my age and not frontline tech savy, good luck catching up!!!
I seriously don’t believe that, despite what I have done to be internet compliant with my webpages, that anyone “online” will ever read these words. So, I’ll shut up now … and address the intended subject matter of this shared post to another time and page. No, I didn’t forget the title above, I’m just still working out an answer for it myself. What I have to share online is important for every Indigenous minority that is online! How do I reach them “online”?! … Only the supremacist majority gets a real and honest voice in this world?!
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