Prize Blogging

It's Tuesday!

All this blogging has gotten me nostalgic for the good old days of the internet when it was still an unorganized mess. The dark times, before the Google.

No, it wasn't the dark times. Actually in some ways I preferred it the way it was back in the day before business figured out. Back when 'surfing' the web was actually a thing. Remember that? When there was no Facebook, Memebase.com, Wikipedia, YouTube or the like. There were only home pages. Useless, useless home pages. They didn't do anything, you couldn't really interact with them but they were each a little unique slice of a persons life.

Since you had to craft the page from the ground up, each one came out completely different. Backgrounds, animated construction worker gifs, horrible color choices and poorly formatted text were standard. More than that however was the information that people chose to put on those pages. This was a page intended for the world to see, actually intended to be viewed by strangers. It was more special that way I think.

With everything set in templates and pre-formatted structures these days we've all become the same. We all 'like' Amazon.com; but that's not saying much is it? We don't get a feel for a persons personality off a profile summary. It's data, cold data and I imagine you get about the same impression about that person that an IRS tax worker gets from reading 1040's. I miss knowing their favorite colors were maroon and pink despite it being a horrible choice for primary website colors. There was life in those pages.

I've started working on my own, dusting off my meager web-design knowledge and playing around in an HTML editor just for fun. One day it will go live...one day.