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| Writing for beach-fisher web site |
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| Adding in a CD-ROM |
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| One of my old iMacs |
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| instructions for adding in memory |
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| $25 bucks, hundreds of dollars when I bought the machine |
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| Jacob at Fry's Electronics buying Noah's components for his PC |
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| Putting it together |
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| Jacob and Noah many years ago |
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| a couple of my old devices |
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| BLACK mirror |
I wasn’t really a television guy, I prefer reading books when I was young, I spent a lot of time in various public libraries. In the early 90’s, when personal computers were becoming the second television set (so to speak) I put a Windows PC together. It was basically a flight simulation platform for a Microsoft Flight Simulator. The internet was not developed well and personal blogs (HP or home pages as the Japanese call them) were not a thing. Cell phones were big bricks that were not internet capable.
A friend of mine had an early Macintosh computer and my mother had recently given me hers. It was an elegant machine that was so much different than the Windows machine that I had built from components.
HTML or hypertext markup language is the language of the internet. My buddy taught me to code websites. We wrote them in a simple text generator and copied the code uploading the file to our personal server space usually found at our ISP or Internet Service Provider. Here in Phoenix, Arizona, in 2025 that would be Cox.net.
The initial impetus was that I used this new skill along with my journaling to create a web site to describe my interest, in my case, fly fishing.
At the time I was heavily involved with my cross country hang gliding. Foot launched soaring is not the safest thing a young man with a family could do and many of my friends that were better at it than me died doing it. My family begged me to quit, and I did.
I involved myself in fly fishing and creating web sites about it.
I began blogging before blogging was a name for what I was doing. I was making web sites and connecting with people around the globe conversing on our interests online.
The Internet was a really cool thing, and I was not only using it, but I was also creating content and being a part of it.
I learned early on about the effects that the Internet had on my personal life. Because I have been involved with it long before the large percentage of the public has been, I’ve seen many aspects of it that are not known by the public.
My wife and I meet on eharmony.com we were married a year later, she introduced me to Facebook 31 December 2008 and that's when I joined, just recently, I've decided that I don't want to be a part of that. Social media is ill, and it is run by oligarchs with a mssion, your attention, marketing and money. I've seen the decline of social media directly attributed to marketing and software designed to control you. Not so much like a hypnotist using a pendulum, much much worse.
Algorithms, bots, advertising, nasty people, I've had it.
I have so much time invested in Facebook, photographs, friendships and I've learned too much about people. There are people out there that claim to be experts, masters of whatever it is that they claim because they have followers. Holy fuck, Jim Jones had followers too but that does not make you an expert. 10,000 hours of practice puts you in the category of an expert. A lynch mob has that one person that leads the mob, lots of followers. Followers, likes, stupid and really mean people, oligarchs, software designed to control you, marketing, time sucking blech!!!
So fuck it
This is what I'm doing, making a blog again because I enjoy using computers, writing about what I love and I'm still not looking for followers. I'm looking to enjoy myself, my time and maybe meet a couple of people that I enjoy sharing some online or in real life interests.
Below is a brief history of the sites I've created. Prior to 1997, I believe I made a few pages here and there about flying, fishing, that sort of thing. It was fun but this is the timeline that I can share with you because of the Internet Archive, I was doing it years before they were archiving the web.
My Internet Site History
