So what is... History?
Remember the "old days" when being on the net meant you had a university email account?
When the World Wide Web was actually a new idea? When Mosaic was the hottest piece
of software around and people still used Lynx to browse web pages? Plus there were
modems that actually needed a phone to work. Probably not, since those days were
15 years ago.
Well, I had a web page back then. I also had a T1 connection to the net, and a web
server running on my PC.
For the sake of historical accuracy and the good of posterity, I have brought this
first site and its descendants back for your viewing pleasure. Why I am engaging
in this masochistic exercise in public humiliation, I don't know. I'd like to get
my money's worth for the umpteen megs of site space I have, for one thing. For another,
I think it's pretty cool to look back at the evolution of web technology, or perhaps
more obviously, the evolution of my graphic design skills. I also have a somewhat
obsessive-compulsive pesonality that hates to throw anything away, like email, source
code, or stale bread.
I am now at revision 7(!!) of my personal web site, and below are links at conveniently
spaced intervals to the previous versions. Have at 'em. The interesting old sound
samples have gone from being useless because nobody had the software, to useful
because everybody had the software, to pointless because they are the digital equivalent
of parchment paper. Sure, the information is there, but it's kind of yellowed and
crisp and prone to fall apart at any moment.
I'd like to see anyone else even try to match this for self-indulgence and
decadence on a personal web site. Not gonna happen!
You will note that many of these sites also has a history section, starting in 1999, pointing to the
then-earlier versions of the site. I've been at this for a while.
1993 -- Scary!
1995 -- House of Ruggeri
1997 -- House II
1999 -- aruggeri.com, version 1.0
2001: an aruggeri.com odyssey
2002-2006: ARUGGERI.COM