There was(Is? Will be...) a moment in internet times where a transition from AOL, GEO Cities, the many chat rooms transitioned to exciting platforms such as Blogger.. and now there were far greater avenues of generating income from the information once "just shared". People flocked to these publishing services and gave us the goods. So many gems!
It didn't take long for things to get over saturated- the gems buried, and the many cookie cutter sites just turning into click farms/ click bait... and instead of value... leaned more towards entertaining. I myself dabbled in the Adsense days- know many that made some serious $. There was money to be had... The payouts got smaller, content worse, advertisers not impressed, those publishing not putting in the effort they'd once did.
Still, there is this time where a type of content was shared, and shared without the pay walls...or subscriptions or any expectation of monetary reward in exchange- the "street cred" was the high- having fame for being the one who shared the information was what drove this.
It is a reason that instead of some robust content management platform, I use a service that many may have thought died off. Instead of WordPress... it is Blogger. It's a homage to an era where Blog started to be a thing and Blogger/ BlogSpot was where it's at. I find the best hidden internet secrets deep within' personal sites published on BlogSpot.
M any applications, which still run, little programs.. those "ah ha" moments that they experienced shared to the world- just waiting for someone like myself, yourself to stumble upon and spark our curiosities, drive our hunger for more. I love finding these hidden gems.
I leave this post with a gem found last week- a program written many moons ago, surprisingly having some more recent updates- a powerful analysis tool- for signals, SDR, audio... Spectrum Lab. And look at that site! Nothing fancy. Just the meat and potatoes.. let us not overlook the many little links and resources to further expand the program- like the ability to create virtual com ports. How cool is that? You can really shuffle around those inbound signals, with a visual depiction of the ports to customize how things are linked. Something like this would have been an expensive addon or having to pay further licensing fees. But no, here it's just end users trying to utilize the software t o the fullest and help others do the same. Thank you!
There's many sites lie this hidden away- where some knowledge full individual shares their journey- whatever it may be.
If you know of any "Gems" yourself, please do share in the comments- I'll make a post about them if you do.
And, I leave you with the link I came across for Spectrum Lab- dig around for the other items i'd mentioned!
The link:
https://www.qsl.net/dl4yhf/spectra1.html#fft_filter_plugins
Spectrum Lab
https://www.qsl.net/dl4yhf/spectra1.html
Serial MLonitor- Com Sniffer
SerialTool - COM Sniffer & Serial Port Monitor for RS232/RS485 Debugging
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