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The story of yshome
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How yshome got its name
The full name was “JaeYong’s Homepage,” but friends just called it “Yong’s Home.” The nickname was shortened to ysh, and when it came time to register a domain, every variation of ysh turned out to be taken. So yshome was born — and yshome.me became its address.
yshome is not about any single topic. It is a personal space — a place to record and preserve whatever matters at the time: technology, daily life, stray thoughts. It has existed in various forms since 1998.
A brief history
- 1998: The first version, built with a WYSIWYG editor (Namo Web Editor), table layouts, and dropdown menus — part of the late-90s Korean personal homepage culture.
- 2012: A hand-coded rewrite using HTML5 and CSS3, with parallax scrolling experiments. The first modern overhaul.
- 2014: A Bootstrap redesign that introduced sub-projects — start.yshome (a browser start page), cloud.yshome (file sharing via Pydio), and SVG Matters (an SVG research project). Its creator called himself a “software artist.” This version is preserved at /2014/.
- Now: Rebuilt with Astro and Tailwind CSS. Minimal design, fast and lightweight, with Korean and English throughout the modern site.
About the author
Jaeyong Kim created and maintains this site. He has been interested in web technologies for as long as he can remember, and yshome is the longest-running result of that interest.
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