ronin - 1:04 am on Oct 21, 2004 (gmt 0)

Towards the end of 1994, when I started college, I discovered NCSA Mosaic and the web. It was slow and rubbish and most of all, gray. I wanted to be excited about it, but there seemed to be very little to get excited about.

Two and a half years later I arrived in Dresden for a semester in Germany. I had a lot of free periods in my timetable so I trotted off to the Rechenzentrum (computer labs) to see if the web had changed since 1994. I was staggered by how much it had changed. Within days I had discovered Geocities, the Advanced HTML Editor and I had typed my first <h1> tags. (Wow!)

I decided to write a website and treat it as a work-in-progress project.

I didn't think I'd still be developing the same site seven years later, but that seems to be how things have turned out, more or less...

No, of course it's not still on a Geocities webspace...