Over a decade ago I made my first website. A horribly designed personal site written in notepad. I remember the title being A Dreamer’s Workshop, I was a freshman in high-school so I hadn’t quite grasped the idea of horrid cliches yet. In addition my sense of aesthetics wasn’t well developed either so my GeoCities page was a horrific blend of large tables and dark backgrounds and possibly animated gifs. The iconic flying toaster was a part of it I believe. It’s the kind of page that if I see today I immediately throw up a little in my mouth.

It was a strange time in web development, because everything was new and nothing really looked bad because nothing really looked good yet. We hadn’t had the medium long enough for anyone to truly develop as a proper designer yet. So even with the flying toasters it was a decent page for the time. Nonetheless I will forever associate the beginnings of personal pages with GeoCities, so I’m a little saddened that today it closes it’s doors.

RIP GeoCities

I finally got my invite to Google wave and it looks like the many youtube videos I have seen of it so far. It’s fairly responsive and things seem to work well-ish. There are some noticeable bugs, like folder organizing not being as smooth as it should be etc. The biggest problem with Wave at this point is I have no one to wave to. No one I know has a wave account. Google has pulled the direct invite method and gone to an invite queuing method. I’ve read reports of people getting their accounts between 15 hrs and 5+ days after being put on the invite list.

It’s like getting that amazing new toy on Christmas and finding out batteries aren’t included. So you end up hunting through the house steeling batteries from remote controls. Well unfortunately there are no remotes to steal batteries from here. Google is holding all the remotes and there is nothing I can do about it except wait.

I’ll post my thoughts of it once my invite list get their accounts.