The Old Page
Back in the days of my early travels, there were no blogs.
At least, it wasn't big. It might have filled in some little niche of the world, but it wasn't popular, wasn't a big deal, and I didn't trust it. So I wrote my own, shortly prior to the huge trip around the world. I had never really allowed people to keep in touch with me when travelling, didn't have a cell phone until the summer of '03, and didn't care for mass emailing. If I never read a mass email to completion in my life, why would anyone else? They usually come at inconvenient times, are broad and general with a fake sense of personalness, and roll out of my inbox before I feel like reading them. So when people asked me how to know if I was still alive, I invented webkevin.com, the message center. Being a computer programmer, writing the software was easy, and it gave me a simple interface to add posts, even on a 286. Yet, the final software was exceedingly simplistic and functional (I could always embed html), but was a pain to make sure whatever serverspace I was borrowing allowed me to use perl. For the grand journey, I actually had the space reside on a friend's homepage because nothing I had access to allowed webpages to run scripts.
I also couldn't match colors. You probably know that. And so my style sheet.. well… sucked.
When I talked with some people about nifty blogs recently (2005), I decided to come into the stylistic century, and have someone else design the colors. I also wanted something that had nice formatting and was reliable. It would be a sad day that the temporary server I was using shut down and I lost everything. At least I should know if wordpress is going under.
So here we are. If you'd like to see the original page (while it exists), in it's hideous black, blue, and orange scheme, go here:
Posted: May 5th, 2006 under The World in Six Months '03-'04.