I was chatting with Laeren last night about our old websites. She pointed me to some of the old material on her blog, and it made me wonder if I still had my first site archived somewhere. After sorting through some old backups, I found it. It’s sort of a proto-blog that I hosted on a server in my apartment’s closet. I wrote the first of it when I was an exchange student in England in 2001, and the rest during college. (Laeren has me beat by a few years, though. Her first site went up in 1998.)
I hadn’t read any of it in years, so it was all new to me. I think I used to be a lot funnier.
Going through the HTML files I copied up, I found there were several pages that aren’t linked to by anything:
- Proof that I hated Dubya long before it was cool. I think this was the first thing I ever wrote for a web page.
- An extended rant on the absurdity of enforced maturity.
- When two of my group of college friends were about to graduate, I wrote a quiz to try to find replacements for them. Shockingly, we never got any applicants.
- And a few other things that aren’t worth describing or looking at. Seriously, don’t bother.
Since the last update was in 2004, there are a few references to “my awesome girlfriend Christine,” who is now happily married to someone who is not me. I consider the site to be something of a digital time capsule, so I’m not going to make any modifications to it.
Take a look at it. If you’ve known me for a while, this might be entertaining for you. If not, take a look at it anyway. I’ve been obsessing over my sites stats lately, and I want some hits to entertain me, dammit.