An angry picture of me I used for my front page, circa 2003. Yeah, I look like a douche.

In the early days of the 21st Century, after Yahoo! bought out Geocities, I had a great idea (which, given the fact that I was just video game nerd was obviously related to video games). It was my dream to go to E3…somehow. So, I did what any idealistic teenager would do. I would start up my own gaming website and do nothing but talk about nothing but my obsession with video games. One week later, I abandoned the idea. Why? Because I was a teenager. It wouldn’t be until my sophomore year of high school that I made a website. But instead of making my kick ass video game site, I did what any angsty teen would do with their time: attempt to wax philosophical while coming off completely emo with pictures of me in several angry poses..

While I learned the basics of HTML coding and even a bit of Javascript, my website was something I probably could have replicated by signing up for an account on a blog site. Still…my website was mine, completely built from the ground up with HTML code I found on the internet. And even with everything I knew, my site followed a simple standard…black backgrounds with contrasting font that could make your eyes bleed. I was a fan of black (still am, actually), so every design had to be draped in black like it came out from the computer of goth kid with way too much time on his hands. And, if that wasn’t all, I only ever used Copperplate Gothic Bold, with a dash of Comic Sans MS thrown into the mix in an attempt to add a little more personality to the site when I decided to start adding fan pages about the things I liked. After 2005, I gave up on the site, using HTML to edit my myspace page before abandoning that as well. So yeah, I was among the crowd of desperate teens wanting to throw themselves on the internet to feel important. It kinda sucks I gave up on the page, though. After a few years of not updating, I’ve forgotten a good deal of HTML knowledge. Oh well.

RIP Geocities. It was definitely a learning experience.