I built my first website 27 years ago. I was eight years old. I used homestead.com's revolutionary-at-the-time drag and drop WYSIWYG editor. I fucking hated it.
I don't recall exactly what it was about it, I just remember that it left me feeling like I had one of those awful itches on the roof of your mouth, way back in your soft palate. One of those ones where you cramp your tongue trying to do something about it, then when nobody's looking you just jam a finger back there out of desperation to see if maybe... nope, didn't help!
That itch led me, an unsupervised eight-year-old child, to seek further information on the Internet. I didn't know anything about anything, but I knew that somebody had to know something, and that they probably wrote it down.
My search probably should have played out like a cartoon toddler chasing a bright red balloon into traffic, but surprisingly in 1998 it didn't take long to find basic HTML and CSS tutorials, geared towards children no less!
That is how I began my relationship with the Internet.
27 years later I've changed quite a lot, and so too has the Internet.
I've held this domain name for the better part of a decade, and hosted nothing but a silly little splash page. I never felt the need to do anything but camp on it as a low-rent vanity project.
Now feels like the right time to kick this rock off the ledge and see where it rolls.
I've been dragging around a little social media anchor for 20 years, and as clusters of political bad actors and parsitically aggressive advertisers have glued themselves to that anchor like the barnacles that they are, I've felt increasingly compelled to cut it loose and sail on.
I'm tired of new platforms, new accounts, revamps, and overhauls.
"We're discontinuing this feature you love."
"We're upgrading to a new subscription-based model!"
The fucking "algorithm!"
I'll keep a few accounts online with little information or engagement. Those accounts will point here. For now, if you're looking for me this is where I'll be, tapping out my thoughts, and wrapping them in barebones HTML as I learned it in the 90's.