I went back through some of my Asymptomatic archives today looking for some things, and read some of the old stuff there.
I have a lot of writing offline from when Asy was back in its infancy. I used to run the site on a $5/month Linux hosting service with no content management software. All of the articles are individual files. I have stuff dating back to 1999.
It's interesting what things I didn't write about, even though they were going on. I'm not sure what that's about. I write pretty much everything here these days. Almost. But there are month spans in my archives of nothingness. I might have written one or two pages in a month. No pictures.
There is some audio offline, too. But I can't hear it. I used this Java applet by L&H to encode the audio so it was small enough to download. Remember back in the day of modems? (Are you still using a modem? Do I know you? For shame...) I was trying to keep it all small, and now I can't play any of it back. Oh, well.
I keep meaning to go back and get this stuff to add to the CMS (PageCat) that I currently use. You can see the difficulty to sloughing static pages into a structured database. Soon enough I'm going to rewrite large portions of PageCat so that it runs properly in FireFox. That will be a boon, since I'm primarily using FireFox these days. (Yeah, yeah, point and mock, at least I've tried it and am not a zealot.)
Speaking of which, it's surprising how well the static designs have held up. They all look pretty darn good in FireFox even after all of this time. I really liked some of the color schemes I've had in the past, particularly the brownish/tan one. Not very graphically intense, but very eye-pleasing. It was a fortunate confluence of colors, only shortly thereafter verified as plausible via the color wheel I now use to choose all of my color schemes. This only proves that the best successes are accidents.
Hmm. The best successes are accidents. And I wrote that without even thinking too much about it.
Aaa. I just wanted to make a cryptic note of this today that yesterday was the day, just so that when I go back looking through Asymptomatic archives three years from now, there aren't any holes in recorded history. Remind me to write the complete story later, ok?
