Where does the name of this site come from?
The river Navisence formed the magnificent Val d’Anniviers in Wallis, southern Switserland. One of my favorite places in the world and visible on Google maps.
Navisence was the name I gave to my first PC when connecting it to the LAN we were deploying at the university dorm around 1996. The computer was a 200 MHz Pentium MMX which was running Windows 95 at the time. Later on it turned into a dual-boot with Suse and eventually around 2001 became a very useful file-serving NAT router humming away on RedHat when that still was a free thing. Eventually by 2004, the hardware started breaking down and was taken out of use.
As far as I remember, I started using Navisence as my nickname on Yahoo! Pager when it was launched in 1998. Possibly, I used the name before as a nick on some LAN games at the dorm. From then on, I used it more and more for IM, email addresses and eventually this domain, which I own since December 2005.
Facts
- This site used to be hosted for years by Easyhost. Great support and no complaints.
- Because shared hosting only offers so much and a small VPS has become affordable and is more fun, this site was self-hosted on a vps at Tilaa since august 2013.
- Previously, versions 6 and 7 of the Drupal content management platform were used to serve the content.
- Since march 2016, the static site generator Hugo is used to maintain this site.
- In september 2016 this site was moved to a new VPS at Hetzner.
- In 2021 the source code was pushed to gitlab.com and I started serving the site from a free Netlify account.
- Early 2024 an overhaul was performed, changing to a different theme and removing some old and obsolete contents.
