It’s not often that I get the urge to write on a Monday morning, much less in the morning at all… but here it is 7:30AM on a 1/1/24…
So why am I writing this? I’m not sure honestly, but I think part of it is reflection on the year past, part of it is contemplating the year to come, part of it is I logged in and was really really relieved to find that the previous iteration of this site is no longer on the internet.
Wait there was a previous iteration of this site? Yes indeed my friends on the dearly departed geocities.com. As I’ve written before I started writing December of 2000 while ignoring the Cobol final I had coming up. (At least I think it was a Cobol final it’s been damn near 25 years).
I’m something of a digital packrat so of course I had to go diving through my records to see if I still had the old site… and sure enough I do in a zip archive on one of my cloud services. The archive goes from 2000 through mid 2004 where this site picks up. And let’s say I was a very different person back then. Seeing that old material made me really appreciate the friends I still have from that time. What I really appreciate though is that somehow the internet wayback machine only captured one version of a copy of the old geo cities site.
Which is to say 20+ years ago Tom, probably won’t hurt today Tom. I have a copy and that’s enough, if I lose it then it’s like losing a photo album sad but not the end of the world.
So on this New Years Day, take a moment to reflect on where you came from and contemplate where you are going.
As for me, I’m going to keep scouring the internet to lock down Tom from before 2017… he was a willey one.
P.S. This is post #600 on this page… which is probably why I posted today.