I am so old skool!
This Halloween, my personal Website turned 10-years old. I registered benbrown.com on October 31, 1997. I was 19. Holy crap! I also registered Flabjab.com that day for the Webzine I ran out of my dorm room at the University of Maryland. I actually hosted the domains on a linux box I hacked onto the school network that lived underneath my bed. My friend Emory ran DNS for me - back then it was a big pain in the ass to find DNS hosts! Everyone I knew in college had an account on that machine, and I constantly yelled at people to post stuff to their little ~ homepages, or to contribute something to Flabjab. Those were the days!
I could probably ramble all nostalgic for you for paragraphs and paragraphs, but I think it will just make me bitter about how things have changed. I will just say this: it was really great to be online in 1997 when there was a feeling of real discovery and innovation and of being part of a new frontier of art and communication. The people who were online back then were doing things that had never been done before! It was really mind blowing and inspiring to watch and to be a part of.
And now we all have blogs!
Happy Birthday, Website! I love you! And I thank you for everything you’ve let me do for the past 10 years.
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