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It has been more than twenty years since my first foray on the internet. As a junior in computer science I was in a group comprised of only a few hundred students in CS and Engineering who were given access to this domain.

Indeed, all other students whatever their majors, had no such access which, since its inception, had been available only to academia, the military, and other government entities.

I had no doubt that if I had asked anyone 'on the street' what the internet was, not one person in a hundred would have known.

Back then, navigating the internet was not nearly simple as now. It required the use of Unix commands though for us these were already familiar terms. The fascination wore thin quickly.

Everything was text; there were no graphics, windows, images, hyperlinks; in short, it was missing virtually all that makes the net so compelling now.

The year was 1989 and the first website would not be conceived and built until 1991. Its creator was Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist and MIT professor, who also invented the concept of the World Wide Web.

As I begin this adventure of experiment I am mindful that the web may be the ultimate expression of democratic opportunity. With minimal resources and an idea of merit the potential for gain is quite extraordinary.

Though I have no particular expectations it is curiosity that drives my interest here. Unlike a typical site which has a single purpose, I have chosen instead an eclectic composition of domains and pages whose form, features, and other characteristics are subject to change over time.

My guiding idea will be very simple. Try something and see what happens.


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