So it's June, 2013, and I'm editing this page for the first time in 10 years.

It's hard to get over the absurdity that sometime around 2000, I thought Amazon needed pimping on my little home page. Or, the hubris that this page would be of any use at all in finding what you were looking for on the web.

As tempted as I am to just scratch this, instead I'm going to tidy it up just a touch, and leave it as an unassuming monument to what a links page was before the days of search engine optimization.

This trip down memory lane got me to thinking about the first time I looked myself up on the web, probably around 1994, on something like Lycos.

I distinctly remember that the first thing that popped up was a comment from an emacs lisp archive, saying what a good idea a small thing I'd written was, but:

It's too bad the code is such rubbish, so I've rewritten it here. ---a well kmown emacs developer

History seems to have been kinder to me as I can't find either the original bad code, or the rip on it. The oldest reference I can find to it is quite a bit gentler.

In the dark ages, the second hit was me calling George H. Bush childish in 1988. Who could have forcast the irony in that.

So, that begs the question, (well, not really, but let's pretend), "What's the oldest trace of me on the web? The first I can find is this completely useless effort from 1987. My favorite part of that? When did putting your phone number in your usenet .signature stop seeming like such an excellent idea?

I now return you to your regularly scheduled links.