Welcome to my personal web space.
Relatively new-ish! My phlog, cyber scrapheap, is one of the many fine gopherholes on the SDF gopherclub
I am on Mastodon, @jdd@mastodon.sdf.org
See my Fowl Place archive. 10 years of utterances all on one convenient web page.
Since you are visiting my home page, you must want to see a picture of my cat:
Or maybe you came here to play some Doom. Uses the webassembly version of DOSBox, not suitable for all browsers.
Or view The Horror, a minor work of personal digital archaeology. Better with javascript.
View this site's cookie warning. Requires javascript. Really, I don't actually like javascript that much.
While I'm figuring out what else to put here, please enjoy this ...
A curated list of old-school, non-commercial, hand-made websites in the 90s vernacular. Survivors of the Web As It Once Was, and sites that preserve the spirit of it.
See the full List o' Links here. Now with tags and descriptions!
Here are the five most recent links:
The Leonard Cohen Files
A remarkably comprehensive and long-lived fan site devoted to the life and works of everyone's favourite darkly romantic singer/songwriter, poet and novelist. Lyrics, photos, analysis, interviews and lots more.
date added: 2024-04-25
MEME
Archives of a newsletter about then-current developments in cyberspace, published by David Solomon Bennahum between 1995 and 1998. A remarkable time capsule of that transfomative moment in computing.
date added: 2024-04-07
UbuWeb
"Founded in 1996, UbuWeb is a pirate shadow library consisting of hundreds of thousands of freely downloadable avant-garde artifacts." The site is no longer updated as of 2024, but is being maintained as an archive.
date added: 2024-02-28
Gode Cookery
A site - or collection of sites - for those who like good old fashioned cooking. As in Medieval, Renaissance, Elizabethan, Byzantine, etc. On the web since 1997.
date added: 2024-02-16
History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications
"From the first submarine cable of 1850 to the worldwide fiber optic network" ... A comprehensive collection of historical materials - essays, photos, news articles, etc. Brought to you by Bill Burns, this site has been in development since 1999 or thereabouts.
date added: 2024-02-15
See the full List o' Links here.
The ten most recent additions are available in a handy RSS format.
A few links have been removed since I started this project, see the List o' Broken Links for details.
This site briefly belonged to:
The Yesterweb Ring
... before it became a "horrid monstrosity of users"