I went back through some of my Asymptomatic archives today looking for some things, and read some of the old stuff there.

I have a lot of writing offline from when Asy was back in its infancy.  I used to run the site on a $5/month Linux hosting service with no content management software.  All of the articles are individual files.  I have stuff dating back to 1999.

It's interesting what things I didn't write about, even though they were going on.  I'm not sure what that's about.  I write pretty much everything here these days.  Almost.  But there are month spans in my archives of nothingness.  I might have written one or two pages in a month.  No pictures.

There is some audio offline, too.  But I can't hear it.  I used this Java applet by L&H to encode the audio so it was small enough to download.  Remember back in the day of modems?  (Are you still using a modem?  Do I know you?  For shame...)  I was trying to keep it all small, and now I can't play any of it back.  Oh, well.

I keep meaning to go back and get this stuff to add to the CMS (PageCat) that I currently use.  You can see the difficulty to sloughing static pages into a structured database.  Soon enough I'm going to rewrite large portions of PageCat so that it runs properly in FireFox.  That will be a boon, since I'm primarily using FireFox these days.  (Yeah, yeah, point and mock, at least I've tried it and am not a zealot.)

Speaking of which, it's surprising how well the static designs have held up.  They all look pretty darn good in FireFox even after all of this time.  I really liked some of the color schemes I've had in the past, particularly the brownish/tan one.  Not very graphically intense, but very eye-pleasing.  It was a fortunate confluence of colors, only shortly thereafter verified as plausible via the color wheel I now use to choose all of my color schemes.  This only proves that the best successes are accidents.

Hmm.  The best successes are accidents.  And I wrote that without even thinking too much about it.

Aaa.  I just wanted to make a cryptic note of this today that yesterday was the day, just so that when I go back looking through Asymptomatic archives three years from now, there aren't any holes in recorded history.  Remind me to write the complete story later, ok?