Maybe it's just me...

[synmux]

...but one of the things that I find really weird looking at my old LJ entries (I imported over 2,000 of them as private entries using the Dreamwidth importer, just for archival's sake) is the URLs.

They all use plaintext HTTP.

We never really noticed the entire web switching to HTTPS (due to Let's Encrypt making what was previously a paid service totally free). It was a genuine silent revolution.

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[diffrentcolours]

It wasn't just the expense, it was the ease. Getting paid SSL certificates was a huge faff before the ACME protocol came along.

[synmux]

Oh, I know. I've been doing devops since it was called sysadmin.