Webspace and Me: A History
17 Dec
The move to Wordpress is a major landmark in my experience of creating my presence on the internet; it is the first time in my 9 years of having my own site that I have paid for hosting. To mark the occasion I wanted to create a timeline to show the progression of the sites I’ve created, plus I’ve never cataloged this so I though it would be interesting for me if not for anyone else.
I want to say it began in 1998 when we first got the internet at home. We had aol and you could make your own website, I don’t really remember it.
From that I moved on to the free hosting site tripod.com. I never made a personal site there, instead I made a site to list the complete discographies of every band that I liked, with tracklistings. In the early 2000s I made the first ever (and as far as I know, still the only) fan site for Blake Hazard. You can get a very broken glimpse of it via the Way Back Machine archive take a look. Oh and then there was a site I made to educate people on the different ways “indie” music can be defined. I was quite the indie snob.
At the same time I started having a blog, I used livejournal, and xanga, and livejournal again, and again.
Which reminds me of something I’ve missed from livejournal and can do now… (more…)
