I have had a website since 1997, when it was a Geocities abomination. I obtained my own website domain in 1999. I periodically kept blog-like entries all these years, though they were not called blogs then (and will not be called blogs forever, which will date *these* entries in a {hopefully} quaint way in the years to come.. hi, future!)

I think I just referred to it as a website: “Read about it on my website! I’m keeping a website!” until that phrase evolved into indicating something vaguely porny.

I archived many of these pages and am posting them in this blog. I doubt many of them will be of any interest to anyone (except perhaps to the people that are featured, maybe?) but for the purposes in interest in my own personal history, WA-LA.

The original page designs are entertainly wonky and oh-so-pre-millenium. I have indicated the orginal creation dates of the pages (thanks to Claris HomePage’s date stamp function in the code! Hi-tek!), and have tried to include some of the goofier graphics.

Apart from seeing the evolution of my web design and coding skills (towards the better: thanks gods), what is striking is how my writing style has changed as well. I cringe a little at the more immature entries.. but what has changed, really? In fact, there’s a lot to cringe at (lord, i’ve gotten old), but hey. If I’ve going to keep my ridiculous stacks of journals from my youth in the bookcases, I’m going wrap some of my online life lovingly in some acid-free paper.

I’ve added some “backstory” comments from the present, for contextual purposes. I have disabled the comments functions, though. I don’t want to treat these as “live” entries. They are categorized under “archive”.