Digital explorer since 1988
one of the longest running web publications on the internet
By Fred Showker, aka Showkster
60-Seconds was launched in 1988 as part of the desktop publishing forums on America Online, and DT&G the Design & Publishing Center at Graphic-Design.com. It was attacked by hackers and adversaries three times. It was finally destroyed in 2019. The full story is below.
I am now publishing on these platforms
- 60 Second Window on Medium, note, this is the one that has all our Robo and telemarketing block numbers!
- 60-Seconds on Facebook
- 60-Seconds on Twitter (X)
- 60-Seconds on Quora
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Here's the rest of the story...
Several years ago, I could see the writing on the wall. Ccontent on the internet was moving into automated, content management systems, and soon no one would actually control their own content. Since it really represented time savings and uniformity for publishers, I began publishing and sharing 60-Seconds content between various "social networking" sites.
60-Seconds began to publish content in other platforms. With the shift to "social" sites and big-tech's relentless rule over popularity, we could see that 60-Seconds would be one of the sites the big-tech and big-gov would devalue. The first CMS site was in Drupal in 2015, it was very expensive, but it was wonderful. We were hacked and the site, including Graphic-Design were destroyed in 2019. We moved to WordPress. It was only a matter of time before the site was hacked. The ISP did NOT guard against hackers, and we even had SiteLock and another expensive "security" package, and all three failed.
The failure of WordPress is it's so easy. It' designed to be so ninny-proof that everyone just enters their content directly into the interface. They upload the images into the interface. But once it's done, it's all contained in that database container on someone else's computer. If it's lost and hacked, it's gone. It's not like the pre-CMS days when we kept a copy of our websites on our local computer before uploading it to the server. Big money sites can avoid the ever-present threat of a hack, because they can afford it.
Anyway, not to whine, I needed to retire anyway.
Live Long and Prosper
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60-Seconds.com © 1988–2026 · All rights reserved. 60-Seconds is the editorial column for DT&G Magazine, and The User Group Network written by Fred Showker. 60-Seconds is a spam-free, ad-free, tracker-free, script-free. predator-free, stalker-free web site, and one of the longest continually operated web sites on the Internet. 60-Seconds is a member of, and supporter of SpamCop.net, and UGNN InfoManager. 60-Seconds has been reader-supported since 1988.