Internet Nostalgia
I have this memory.
I don't remember exactly when, sometime in the early 2000s. I am sitting at the family computer, a monument of oak cabinetry that takes up an entire corner of the living room. The smell of ozone and dust fills my nose as the CRT monitor crackles on. My parent's recently let me create my own e-mail account - graduating from the offline Freddi Fish, Putt Putt, and several random cereal box CD-Rom games that were haphazardly stored on top of the desktop tower. My grandma quickly added me to her chain-mail list, the threat of bad luck and the promise of wealth greeted me every time I opened Yahoo mail.
This also meant access to the broader internet.
Most of the time was spent clicking around on the Yahoo home page, eventually I stumbled on Geocities. I didn’t know how it worked exactly but the idea one could have their own website was so alluring. But what would I even make it about?
Rocks. I wrote about Rocks. I made the most basic of pages, don’t ask me how but I was obviously motivated, and I wrote about the cool rocks I had found. I remember it having the most horrendous background, but it didn’t matter because it was mine - my small corner of the World Wide Web.
-Matt