Way back in 1997 I was blessed with my very first ISP account. The first I visted was I believe CNN.com, since that's the only URL that was constantly shoved down our throats in those days of minimal internet usage. That same day I discovered Netscape Editor, a piece of software that let me change anything I saw online... but for some reason I couldn't figure how to save the changes to the site. That's how I started web development and design.

I started off with the 90s trademark homepage, complete black background, flashing titles, under constuction gifs, and blinking bullets. But I could never understand why people would be interested in my personal homepage. In a couple of days I figured what I needed to build: portals. I tried hard; I worked on country specific portals, and even age specific ones. But I just never put in enough effort to ever complete anything. At every major or minor hurdle, I got this brilliant new idea resulting in another index page. Most of them time quick and dirty overnight floaters like a cards tricks and optical illusions site were the only things that came out of my creative department.

That's how I came up with versions 1 and 2 of my own homepage. Simply because the projects were getting to spread out, I worked for a few hours on a temporary design and that would just stick their until I worked on something totally different. It all makes me wonder if I suffer from AADT? I pronably do, but I'm not seeing any doctor about it anytime soon.

Anyway, so back in the beginning of 2001, I used 7 random graphics generated with n_Gen and put them up as splash pages on this site, notifying the miniscule number of visitors that a new version is coming out in May of that year. It never did.I changed it to July... and nothing happened. The I stopped mentioning any dates and just let people know it's "coming soon". Meanwhile people kept telling me how cool my matrix themed (version 2) homepage was. I was running tired of it.

I had already known the Blogger phenomenon for sometime... but since I never really liked remotely hosted scripts, I just didn't want a huge B symbol on my homepage. So I kept working on just a homepage. But this time around I wanted to showcase all what I had learnt over the years. From php to perl, and dhtml to flash, I wanted to make the best use of all the techniques. Again, my self-diagnosed attention deficit disorder kicked in, and I go too busy with other things. But this time it was different, I was going through college, and I just never had time for continuous day longs sessions infront of the CRT trying to make sure the page works alright in both IE and Mozilla (I hate netscape btw).

Then sometime last year I discovered two bloggint tools, Grey Matter and MovableType. And MovableType just stuck with me. Priorities shifted and I made MovableType my front tool to create a new blog-based homepage. Meanwhile in January 2003, I launched a preview sort of blog here anyway. Just like before, an overnight work took over as the main site while I got bizy with school and stuff. But this time I kept coming back to working on the samething, because I have simply grown tired of my abandoning nature. It worked.

And that's how your here reading this entirely boring history right now.