Birthday!

It’s Wednesday. Well, well… guess who’s 27th birthday it is today? No, not me—that ship sailed decades ago! It just so happens that I started this website 27 years ago today, October 26th, 1995. In tech years that’s a hell of a long time. I started this thing back when the Internet was just beginning to transition from something only the tech-savvy were using, to something that the average public was beginning to use. The only way to access the Internet back then was from work or via dial-up on a home computer. And thanks to companies like Gateway, home computers were quickly becoming more affordable and common.

So, why did I create a daily website 27 years ago? All I remember was I wanted to learn how to do it. Once I did it, I wanted people to see it. I didn’t want to do all the work and have it seen by only a handful of my friends. So I started posting my comments along with other things like jokes and, you guessed it, photos of beautiful women. Other sites started linking to it and suddenly it went from roughly one-hundred visitors a day to thousands—and then tens of thousands. I was happy to keep it going as long as people would visit, which brings me to today. Still free with no advertising… for 27 years!

I just quickly dug up a few graphics from past versions of my website and put them into a gallery below. A few of them might be familiar to some of you. Enjoy!

-keep

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