I’ve been on the internet in some form since 1994, making my first webpage in 1995, back when everything was center tags and large fonts in Times New Roman on gray backgrounds. It was a fun era, full of exploration, trial-and-error, and copious use of the ctrl+R key. The first visual webpage came in 1997 as Netscape ruled the internet, and my only worries about content were a lovely summary of my friend’ top 5 dream Jeopardy categories (as borrowed from Douglas Coupland’s novel Microserfs) and a tribute to Dead Poets Society, my favourite movie at the time. I don’t even think they were called fansites way back then. It was at this point I actually started an online diary, a weekly - or more - essay about how college was going and where I might apply for my first job after graduation.

Then the job happened, and the sub-contract jobs to pay the bills, and the design inquiries, and forays into software development, the obsession with the perfectly layed-out table, then the perfectly layed-out div, and somehow in the middle of that, I missed the blog revolution, trading off spending energy on my own projects for spending energy on client’s project so i could buy a sony playstation.