Well,
I'm sure it's been a long time since anyone wondered why another person makes a
webpage, but why a person wouldn't make one. I have a webpage, and it's a
pretty unmysterious, standard self-indulgent, introspective and rambling
bullshit of a page.
Just a little bit of conformity for Thomas.
The page itself originated long ago, in one of my many stages of general
unemployment, and has been updated sporadically, and several times majorly
during other stages of unemployment.
The original intent was largely to relay information for various roleplaying
campaigns I was involved in, starting directly after a D&D session that
ended at two in the morning, followed by an online GURPS game that started at
seven, which is what happens when you game with people in different time zones.
It started on Geocities, since it made for convenient linking with the Knight-ORP
group page for my D&D group. Plus Tripod seemed to be down, and my
craptacular ISP at the time had all Xoom traffic blocked.
Eventually of course Geocities decided that it could legally lay claim to any
information that any subscriber had on their website, and sell it, and I moved
the entire thing to Angelfire, where I got double the webspace anyway. Angelfire
had the advantage at the time of not having a popup, but a banner at the top,
which is way less intrusive.
Now of course, if I was more energetic on things like this I'd find a place that
didn't have a banner, but a popup, since I use Firefox now, and I see maybe one
popup a week. I use Firefox because I have some severely screwed up registry
problem, and can't upgrade IE past 6, and you need to have the newest versions
to use it at all, or shit fucks with other shit. So.. Firefox. It's a little
nicer in a lot of respects anyway. Except for bookmarking.
Behind every successful man stands a very surprised woman.