This list of "Detectorists’ Personal Sites" comes from the "Links" section of the UKDFD alongside their intelligence-insulting "Metal Detecting - The Hobby and its Detractors". The site seems to have been neglected and most of these links no longer work (and the "Widget" one seems to be infected with something - click at your own risk)
- Bazza's Site
- Bob Bailey's Metal Detecting Site
- Ceejay's Metal Detecting Pages
- Detego Metal Detecting
- Venicone's Site
- Dino's Site
- Widget's Site
- Dean's Site
Good question. I think you hit the nail on the head but perhaps not in the way you think. To my mind, '2005' is the most pertinent part of your assertion.
ReplyDeleteNine years is a long time and the way in which we use and access the internet today is substantially different. Go back to 2005 and YouTube had just launched, Facebook was in its infancy and smartphones had poorer quality cameras as well as being much less widespread. I was in my early 20's at the time and didn't engage with Facebook until 2007.
If you consider the average detectorist, we are typically not very young, have not grown up being taught how to code and have never built a website.
So why did people stop building websites to show their finds? Because technology and social media provided a faster easier and cheaper platform with which to work! Why build a website, take photographs with a camera, upload them and then have to pay for hosting services when you can, with one device, take, annotate and publish a photo pretty much instantly, sharing it with a group of people at no additional cost from pretty much anywhere in the country?
Seems more sensible, logical and reasoned to me than some deep underlying sense of guilt.
Because they post their finds on Facebook groups, YouTube and Instagram. People love showing and sharing what they have found.
ReplyDeleteNot really but looking at the quality of this website it looks like theres a skills gap...
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