Meant to post this article a year ago when I first read it, For The Love of God, Make Your Own Website.
This almost reads like me in my early teens:Browsing the internet used to be a hobby of mine. Ever since my dad got us a modem when I was around ten, I spent hours at a time just looking at different websites. The internet felt like a limitless expanse of free expression. Now, despite how many more people use the internet, I usually end up at the same three or four websites, and I end up a lot more bored.
Part of the appeal of the internet when I was young was making your own website. I taught myself HTML as a tween to facilitate that desire. Free web hosting on sites like Angelfire or Geocities was abundant, and you could waste an entire day just looking at the dumb things people put online.Â
This year marked the 25th anniversary of starting a blog, then a few months later buying my first domain.
To celebrate the blog’s anniversary in May, I started a new theme, but never finished. Then considered working on it again around the domain anniversary in August, but never got around to it.
After a week or two of yak shaving (video example), I’ll activate my 90s style construction banner plugin and starting messing around again in public.