I moved my e-mail from GMail some time ago. But I was still using Google to store my contacts and calendar. The situation with contact and calendar data is a bit more complicated, as the standards here are much less clearly defined as with e-mail.
It started with me moving most of my written content from big platforms. Hence this website. The second, and lot more important for me, was liberating my e-mail. I have been a GMail user for a very long time. It’s an amazing product, making a lot of the hard stuff seem easy and natural. But unfortunately, it’s run by Google and it’s just scary how much of our online life is controlled by them nowdays. Long gone are the days of “Don’t be evil”.
I have been running my website at taborsky.cz for more than twenty years now. At the beginning, I hosted everything myself, just because there was no other way. I hand-crafted my HTML, or used PHP for some simple templating to automate it.
