My first ventures on the Web (late 90's)

I was surprised and delighted to find that a group of web historians have taken the time and energy to recover much of  the old Geocities web sites. For those not familiar  Geocities  was a place where one  could go and set up a web site for free. I built my first site there in the mid 90's but over time it was displaced by fancier and other  sites and my site went down as Geocities closed its doors and since I had drifted off to other things I thought my work was lost and it would have been except for a group of dedicated people who rebuilt Geocities or most of it including my old site.t


The group that rebuilt the site calls themselve Reocities.  On their page they say We've rebuilt the walls to the Cities and the streets where a large part of the early settlers of the World Wide Web used to live in. You can still find them where they were before, but not all of the houses have been rebuilt yet.  


I am happy that they have done this as they have recovered and rebuilt, some of my early pages, so in a sense I have been reborn.  I did not realize that I was one of the early settlers of the Web, but I am happy that some of the sites I built were recovered. All of the links don't work and I have no way of editing them, but the find does bring back some very positive memories. So if  you want to take a look at some of my early work on theWeb (back in the late 90's) go here


I put the following about me on that early page  so I thought I would share it here:


I am within ten years of my retirement, and as I look back over my work history, I take pride in the number of divesified careers I have enjoyed. I enjoyed the humor of the following as it sums up some of my thoughts towards work and where it can take us.

• My first job was working in an orange juice factory, but I got canned ... couldn't concentrate.
• Then I worked in the woods as a lumberjack, but I just couldn't hack it, so they gave me the ax.
• After that I tried to be a tailor, but I just wasn't suited for it.
• Then I decided to become a Travel Agent, but I found the work too foreign.
• Next I tried working in a muffler factory but that was exhausting.
• I tried working as a retail store manager but I was always losing the inventory.
• Next was a job in a shoe factory; I tried but I just didn't fit in.
• I became a professional fisherman, but discovered that I couldn't live on my net income.
• I tried becoming a consultant but no-one would listen to me.
• I managed to get a good job working for a pool maintenance company, but the work was just too draining.
• I tried politics once, but since I could only be truthful, my downfall was inevitable, and I didn't last long.
• So then I got a job in a gymnasium, but they said I wasn't fit for the job.
• I got a job as a historian until I realized there was no future in it.
• Just for the html of IT, I tried web design but I kept forgetting my (java) script .
• I finally landed a job as a teacher but they said I had no class.
• So I am now considering retiring, because I think I would be perfect for that job!