Keeping time
I’m going to plot out a brief history of my stupidity on the internet, because I’m digging through some of my old HTML archives and reminiscing on days past.
- 1996: Compuserve access to the internet via dialup modem.
- 1997: First attempt at a webpage on Geocities (remember those guys?). Nearly suspended from school after posting several malicious comments about a classmate. Two factors involved here: first, that I was a prepubescent juvenile, and second, the school administration understood nothing about the internet. But also third, I was a prepubescent juvenile.
- 2000-2001: Cable internet and IRC. Made some internet friends over the subtitling of Japanese animation. At the time, they were in high school; we are all now professionals of one kind or another—mostly engineers.
- Mid-2001: Tripod webpage, apparently intended to simulate writing under the influence of psychotropic drugs without the use of said
psychotropic drugsentheogens. Wrote FAQ about some videogame which apparently led to a paradigm shift in the way the game was played competitively. Of course, since I was still a juvenile, I was too busy arguing with people about other things on the internet. - April 2004: First post on blogger which eventually became semilunar.org. Amazingly, here are my first posts complaining of headaches (this eventually became something else entirely).
- September 2004: Purchased semilunar.org and webhosting for $7/mo (still paying $7/mo). Became super-busy with work and school and stopped tinkering with HTML. Split my blogs around this time, one for serious things and one for anime and gaming in the event that somebody cared enough to try and look me up on the internets.
- Post-2004: Things pretty much went quiet after this. Wrote a lot of stuff which I’ve since unfortunately lost with the old SQL database on my last blog. Made webpages for school organizations.
- 2012: Met up IRL with the aforementioned friends from the Internets. None of the five of us turned out to be serial killers. This did, however, lead to the photograph seen below.
Of course it’s been eight years since 2004, but other things that have happened would include five years of an MS/MD and three of residency. Which … actually, I suppose that correlates perfectly.
The internet has also changed significantly in that time. Blogs, friendster, myspace, facebook, twitter, tumblr.
What a mess, this Internet thing.
