Movable Type

I had the same thought! Interestingly the blog software moveabletype is still alive and kicking, which I did not know before now... https://www.movabletype.org/

You just described Movable Type (https://movabletype.org/), which was WordPress before WordPress was WordPress. The irony here is that the reason WordPress eclipsed Movable Type was that people got tired of having to go through the edit-output static files-publish cycle to modify their content. They wanted to make their changes in an editor and have them appear immediately on the live site, without waiting for a new set of static files to grind out. WP, which generates all pages dynamically, met that demand nicely. Then of course people eventually discovered the downside of generating every page dynamically, namely that it's much more resource intensive, and started to clamor for something more efficient. So the current wave of static site generators were born, doing the exact same thing MT got killed in the marketplace for doing. Sigh.

I think I tried a blog engine once that did this. Maybe it was https://movabletype.org/ ? In any case, I really wish more people/tools employed this strategy.

Six Apart's MovableType is still around. https://movabletype.org

> one of the few cases where an alternative is vastly more secure while providing similar functionality Can you list some? I think http://www.movabletype.org/ qualifies.

Missed the early 90s; started late in 1999. However, I remember the fun Flash era in the early 21st century. I played my part religiously (my name was on the credit roll of the Flash IDE). Published my personal site[1] for the first time in 2001, with designs inspired by the likes of 2Advanced, Ultrashock. It went on for few years. I remember those days where design award was a thing. My site used to win quite a bit. :-) I also remember using Blogger[2] to publish to my site via their "Publish to FTP" feature. I remember using a different comment system because Blogger didn't have its own. Later, moved to Movable Type[3]. Beta tested WordPress[4] at a time when it had no option to create pages. I think, by 2003/2004, my website became just a full-fledged blog, powered by WordPress and it remained to this day. The early 00's was, indeed, an era of lots of fun and experiments. 1. https://web.archive.org/web/20020515000000*/brajeshwar.com 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger_(service) 3. https://www.movabletype.org/ 4. https://wordpress.org/

I think Movable Type does this http://movabletype.org/

http://www.movabletype.org/ ?

Textile got this right: https://movabletype.org/documentation/author/textile-2-syntax.html