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## Welcome to GitHub Pages
## Server-side JavaScript is so 1999
You can use the [editor on GitHub](https://github.com/antville/helma/edit/gh-pages/index.md) to maintain and preview the content for your website in Markdown files.
It was the year when one of the earlier collaborative weblogs (yes, that’s what we called blogs at the time) called [Helma turned into a _corporate website_](http://web.archive.org/web/20010502043303/http://classic.helma.at/comment.asp?helmatic=hannes&item=7696)…
Whenever you commit to this repository, GitHub Pages will run [Jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com/) to rebuild the pages in your site, from the content in your Markdown files.
Thus, the life of Helma, the _web application framework_ begun. And with it, a serious effort of applying server-side JavaScript.
### Markdown
**JavaScript on the server.
Long before NodeJS.
Way long.**
Markdown is a lightweight and easy-to-use syntax for styling your writing. It includes conventions for
Helma would not have been possible without the creative minds at the Austrian public broadcaster ORF, once called ORF Online, ORF.at nowadays.
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They commissioned the precursor of Helma, a publishing system based on Marimba, and they used and further developed it for their in-house content management.
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
This early code blossomed into Helma and the content management organically grew into it, together with a bunch of sidelined applications, comprehending forum apps, podcast services and even SSL certificate management.
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And all by writing JavaScript on the server.
Long before NodeJS.
Way long.
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From ORF.at’s solid trunk a lot of colorful branches started to sprout, some of which still are around:
**Bold** and _Italic_ and `Code` text
* [Antville](https://antville.org), the non-profit weblog hosting system, and its (at the time) corporate sibling [Twoday](https://twoday.net)
* [Parq](http://www.parq.at) and [Coplaner](http://coplaner.net), two groupware platforms for “joint building ventures” (_Baugruppen_ in German)
[Link](url) and ![Image](src)
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All written in JavaScript on the server.
Long before NodeJS.
Way long.
For more details see [GitHub Flavored Markdown](https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/).
The people using Helma thought it was very convenient to write code in the same programming language for both, the client _and_ the server. And they were not wrong: along came NodeJS and somehow suddenly JavaScript was everywhere.
### Jekyll Themes
Unfortunately, Helma was not. And so she became part of the JavaScript mythology. A blink of an eye in the history of the web. Almost forgotten. Blessed forever.
Your Pages site will use the layout and styles from the Jekyll theme you have selected in your [repository settings](https://github.com/antville/helma/settings). The name of this theme is saved in the Jekyll `_config.yml` configuration file.
### Support or Contact
Having trouble with Pages? Check out our [documentation](https://docs.github.com/categories/github-pages-basics/) or [contact support](https://support.github.com/contact) and we’ll help you sort it out.
A little server-side JavaScript framework called Helma.
Long before NodeJS.
Way long ago.