Why Is This Here?


History

In 1996 the first version of Voltage Noir went live. It featured a few sparse notes on artificial life and genetic algorithms, a hidden page inspired by the film “The Net”, and a dancing stuffed toy called “Lion Thingy”.

The technology was advanced. Hanging off a redirected high port on a Digital UNIX server, then over 2400 Baud dial-up (via SLiRP) to a Pentium 60 desktop Linux box named Rasputin. This was the best version of Voltage Noir.

Subsequent versions had Gimp rendered graphics and cutting edge commentary focused on the issues of the day, such as “blogs are stupid and bloggers only talk about what they ate for breakfast”

Present Day

So why is Voltage Noir back? As an excuse to play with static site builders, CI/CD pipelines, and whatever.

What does “Voltage Noir” mean?

It is a reference to Film Noir, or “Black Film” en français, only with voltage… Some sort of technology or something. You know cool cyberpunk stuff? JUST like that but without the cool part.