OMG You Guys

A tilde is just a ponytail for your username.

Let's Get Small

I have no idea what I'm going to do here.

The easy and most obvious thing to do would be to go for retro snark. And that's what I thought I was going to do. "Hey, lookit! It's just like a old, bad geocities user page!"

Yawn

You you want to do that thing, rock out. Have fun. I mean it. The internet needs more fun and less yelling. To me, though, it feels like getting a fiberglass kit version of the car you wanted in high school.

If I'm going to do a nostalgia trip, I'd rather see if I can find way back to the love and excitement I felt back when the Web was new. Before we made it into a shakedown racket for the advertising business. When users were readers, not "eyeballs". Maybe I can find something there. Something we lost.

That's probably no less retro-bullshit than using a <blink> tag or Ye Old Starfield Background behind a lime green monospace font but I'm willing to give it a shot.

-ubu