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It was glorious. It really was. It felt like a childhood Christmas or Birthday every day for months. It was such an exciting time I could hardly sleep. That was 1997-98 after I broke free from AOL and started using Internet Explorer to surf the "real" web.

I created my first website in 1998 simply because I had an idea I wanted to share and it went semi-viral. It wasn't about money or fame or anything else. 10 pages, Front Page 2.0, largest page 3K, $29.95/month hosting. Of course, if you count the 7K logo graphic (gif) the pages were really 10K!

In my adult life only a few things have given me that same feeling of unbounded childhood excitement and freedom. Perhaps that's why I can't give up yet on the "promise" of the web even though corporate control and government surveillance seem to increasing daily.