(after a 6 month hiatus the index page read: Deadbear is back)
My pride and joy from about 1997-2002 was not a random slew of blonde girls with great assets. No it was a simple webpage I proudly designed and built by hand. I took great care to fully write each area of the site using only notepad, the main reason was to help me build skills in a soon to be web infiltrated world. So it wasn't unusual for me to happily slave away for hours on this site, optimizing code, clearing out redundancies and making sure every tag (</P>) got terminated!
Before this huge undertaking of actually bringing my life, my stories and my adventures online, I had piddled around on various free services like ISP provided web space or geocities. This is when the bug first bit me, that would later turn into a complete revolution of thinking and ideas that was deadbear.net. I moved on from the sort of bragging sites and underground culture displays to a more somber gallery content. The basic premise was to build different galleries of my interests and use images/video to make them come alive.
(old image 1999, female unknown...)
You have to keep in mind back in those days a 100Mb hosting account with 20Gb of transfer a month was pretty standard, these were also the days of the $400, 40Gb hard drive. Space was at a premium and I was forced to crunch my images down as much as possible using the web palette of photoshop 4.0 to make it all work. While it was fun to an extent to try and streamline the site and speed test it constantly for a 28.8 modem, with a display of 800X600, the reality was I wanted more. Who could have known my current web presence would meter up to:
- 62,340 images
- 11,224 pages
- 134,592 words
- 560 videos
What a herculean task that must have been! Right!? No. The funny thing is, the effort to build such a massive daily blog/archive of my life is actually almost a seamless part of my existence at this point. The super fast Internet connections, mobile and otherwise, coupled with smart phones and great software have made the Internet a much easier organism to integrate with. My older sites were much harder to maintain, update or even write. This site archives itself forever! Deadbear.net required me to build custom archive scripts which worked half the time. Most of the archive pages were handmade! Yes these are the salad days for the Internet. I'm certain in 10 more years I will look back and laugh at the pitiful JPGs and FMV videos, and probably wonder why I wasn't uploading 100Mp images and Hi-Def 1280P videos using my unlimited optical tier 1 connection...
Stay tuned as I slowy bring back from the dead, deadbear.net! I think I will coin the phrase: "the deadbear restoration project" that way its sounds like I am doing something meaningful and important. As lamer as this is about to sound I have to admit, I will be redcoding using dreamweaver this go, I really have gotten spoiled using all this fancy web embedded software. Actual screenshots of deadbear.net in an editor follow (gasp!)
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