What happened to my /edu page, and why it came back
I got some reader feedback the other day which amounted to "what happened to your /edu stuff" and "wasn't there a lot more in there?" These are legitimate questions, and I figured it's worth explaining what that was and then what happened to it.
Way back in 2013, I was post-one-big-company and pre-another, and got the idea in my head that people would want to watch screen captures of me writing code. I even had the thought that there might be some money to be made in the process.
I didn't like the fact that most of these "screen recordings" were literally videos of people's terminals (or IDEs, ick). They lost the ability to copy and paste from the screen since it was no longer character-based and instead was pixel-based. It also meant way more bandwidth to serve up such things.
Back then, I was on still on my ancient ServerBeach machine which ran its Ethernet port at 10 Mbps *half duplex*. I'm fairly sure they provisioned their network this way deliberately. It had the effect of limiting just how much load you put on their network since they didn't charge for bandwidth back then. (Now you know why YouTube used them for their video serving pre-Google, and why only their db stuff was on the Rackspace side of things!)
