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11/04/2004: "A Brief History of this Site."
I began building my first web site in 1994. I had been already familiar with some programming and UNIX, and had been picking up HTML. When completed, the "website," very primitive at the time (no backgrounds, no fancy fonts) and was hosted by the University of New Hampshire; Although it was nothing more than a simple one window page with very little content, I had a website, so I was an Uber-nerd. This was version 0.x.
When that site dissappeared, I got an account on SDF and attemped a more sophsticated project. I tried to use my new skillz with frames and used a neat marble background. Of course, due to my laziness, the design of that site had never changed. This was version 1.x.
In June 2001, SDF crashed. All of my data in my html bin was lost. Thereafter, I spent a short time coding (what I thought at the time would be) a temporary site until I could re-code something much neater. This page utilized a tabular format, which was becoming quite popular at the time. The site began as "All that's Fit to Shit," and was re-named "Fuck the World" a little over a year ago. Alas, I left plenty of room for content that I never had a chance to add, and this design has not been altered for a period of three years. This was version 1.1.x.
The version of the site you are looking at, version 2.0 is to be launched at the end of this month. It has been literally ten years since I began web publishing, and I think I'm not too bad for a non-proessional who has no formal training (if I do say so myself). I have gone entirely with CSS in this new version, and formatted the site around Greymatter. Although it is perhaps the most savvy site I have built to date, there are always improvements to be made. Please feel free to send me comments at faith@freeshell.org, especially if you are using a browser that makes the styesheets do something uncanny.
Enjoy!
This site was coded on an on my HP Pavilion ze4600 laptop, running an AMD Athalon xp2500+ processor running at 519MHz. The orininal code was hand-coded in EditPlus, before integrating it with greymatter.
The site is hosted by SDF public access unix system running Apache/1.3.29 on NetBSD/OpenBSD.
