Category: Culture

A lot of stuff happened in 1997.  But let’s remember it’s the year humanity put a robot on Mars.

On the about page for the blog I describe my slash and burn strategy to websites (since websites existed).  My first web “presence” was a GEOCITIES site where the HTML was lovingly handcrafted and CSS was a foreign language I’d yet to mangle.  We spoke TABLES back then and we sounded pretty good for the times. I think I tried out the various “free” web-hosting options during the late middle part of the 1990s including Tripod where I think a one Jon “Goats” Rosenberg spent some time.  All of that was swept away in the debris of the Web 1.0 …

Okay, some thoughts back on 1995… I got my first real job after graduating from law school; I moved from one coast to the other; I found an apartment and made new friends.  All a bit of catching up on my otherwise delayed embrace of adulthood I guess. I had an email address at this point — it may have been moving that precipitating me switching from AOL to a ISP account and getting a non-AOL address.  It may have been IBM.net, I’m not 100 percent sure anymore.  (Remember when there were like 10,000 ISPs to choose from?).  I was a …