Skirv's Homepage

To understand my web page, you need to know one thing first - I am from Champaign, Illinois. The first graphical web browser was designed about 1.5 miles from my house, and a bit more than two blocks from my high school.

I was there at the dawn of the World Wide Web.

Unlike just about everybody else I've ever heard of, my high school, Uni, had a high-speed 'net connection since they really existed. From my freshman year there, I was downloading stuff off the 'net to upload to local BBSes, playing MUDs, and generally carrying on like a freshman in college that had just learned about the Internet - the only difference was that I was 13. Accordingly, as I grew up and learned more about the 'net, I came to like the more serious aspects - email, news, etc. And then one day I heard some of my friends talking about this new "web" thing. And so I learned that, too - getting myself in trouble here and there, just so I could play with a real copy of Mosaic, surfing the web for content.

But even then, there was none.

By the beginning of my senior year, I had begun work on a homepage. It wasn't a real homepage, not in the sense that most people understood - it was just text, without a picture to be seen except a small little cat on the bottom. But it was a page, and it was kinda neat, it gave me someplace to put up some stuff that I'd written - and it was content. Nobody *else* I knew had content on their pages...

And so it began to grow.

My hatred of graphics grew over the next few years, but at the same time the page did too. I added a high-school address page, a stories page, lists of the threats against me, documents, and more. The main page grew more and more personal, as I kept on thinking of things to put on there. And I started work on the Dungeon with the help of the Daemons, along with lots of other projects...

And still it grew.

It's really hard to fully explain the following years of the page, beyond pointing at the page itself. I split it into several sub-pages that are combined with SSI a few months back, which has made it much more managable. The current size is 129,427 bytes, with two pictures (9,086 and 384 bytes). There are several sub-pages:

...and that ignores the stuff like my FAQs, software, newsgroups, and other actual projects. These are just things about me.

And still it grows.

It's all still content. I'm not proud of it all, but I'm proud of it in general. And I look forward to the day when somebody somewhere does something similar.