Welcome to my personal web space.
No longer new! My phlog, cyber scrapheap, is one of the many fine gopherholes on the SDF gopherclub
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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 view The Horror, a minor work of personal digital archaeology. Better with javascript.
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:
Perfect Sound Forever
"The online music magazine with warped perspectives." One of the longest running web-zines, in 'business' (as they say) since 1993, still being updated in the present day. Lots of articles and interviews, with a predilection for the undeservedly obscure.
date added: 2024-09-28
Centronian BBS
A Commodore 64 BBS running on a real C64, in Victoria BC. Update Sept 16 2024: It's back after over a year offline! Originally added 2022-01-06, then removed 2023-03-24.
date added: 2024-09-16
Sherrie Rabinowitz: Innovator & Visionary
All about the work of groundbreaking telecommunications artists Sherrie Rabinowitz and Kit Galloway, in the years 1975-2000.
date added: 2024-09-07
The Trojan Room Coffee Pot
The Trojan Room at the University of Cambridge Computer Lab was the site of the very first web cam, when its predecessor, XCoffee - a frame grabber tracking the state of the lab's coffee pot - was ported to the web in November 1993. The coffee pot and the Trojan Room are long gone, and the webcam was turned off in 2001, but its web site lives on as a testament to a heroic age now barely visible through the mists of time.
date added: 2024-08-17
Pokey the Penguin!!
A webcomic about the odd little adventures of an odd little penguin.
date added: 2024-08-05
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"