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My web experience started off with my account on the William & Mary Computer Science web server. The site featured a picture of a "Basselope" lifted from Bloom County, and a few very boring links. The page was so utterly unremarkable that it doesn't exist anymore, not even in the Internet Archive. The only notable content on this site came the summer before my Junior year at W&M, when I went on a tour of all of the minor league baseball teams in Virginia, and wrote about it in a series that ended up on that website, in addition to the South Hill Enterprise newspaper in South Hill, VA. That series was called "The Minor League Experience", and dead links to it can still be found in a couple of places around the web.

The CS website stayed up until I graduated in 1997. Shortly after graduation, I purchased the "lunenburg.org" domain, though I didn't use it for anything immediately. I don't remember having a website again until I moved to Alexandria, VA, in late 1997 and got a cable modem through the local cable outfit, "Jones Cable". Their cable internet system was set up so that you could run servers off of your system, so I got a friend of mine to host DNS for me, and I ran a mail server and a small web server there. This site consisted of a few small pages and a couple of graphics - nothing eye-catching, I can assure you. It eventually grew to hold "Wade's Wrestling Stuff", a collection of pro wrestling reports that I was writing, in addition to other little things like interviews, a hometowns list, etc. All of that was basically a duplicate of the writing I was doing for DDT Digest.

Sometime around April 1999, I redesigned the site. This new site was the first one to feature what could charitably be called a "layout", using Server Side Includes to break the page into sections, with a sidebar, header, etc. It continued the trend of "more content", and stayed pretty static for about two years. The site for my wedding lived there, along with my forays into the world of RPM building. Unfortunately, the Internet Archive doesn't appear to have archived the images that made up the sidebard and whatnot, so you can't actually navigate the page or really see what it looked like, but you can manually check out my personal pages or my links from that site.

Finally, over the snow in early January, 2002, I got tired of my that site and tired of saying "I'll redesign it eventually" and built a new one. This site is entirely in PHP, conforms to the XHTML 1.0 standard, and uses Cascading Style Sheets. It continues to be the home of my projects and general geekiness, all the while containing absolutely nothing that the average person would find useful.

In October of 2002, I moved completely away from the old HTML tables-based layout and into a layout based completely on CSS. While this causes some problems with old browsers like Netscape 4, it's more flexible and better supporting of web standards, which are a good thing.

The more things change, the more they stay the same...

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