11.01.06
Detritus of the digital age
If you’re reading this, you must have found me. I’ve had a spot on the web since 1996, but in that decade I’ve had five different URLs (2 at GeoCities, Mac.com, Mindspring, and now ardisson.org) and a mind-bogglingly large number of email addresses.
In the process of consolidating all these URLs and addresses over the past few weeks, I’ve realized just how much junk
I’ve set loose on the internet and how much is still sitting there, decaying. As a historian, it’s comforting to see some bit of permanence on the web, but at the same time it’s a bit like coming upon this library that has been sitting around, uncared for and with a leaking roof, for a decade. Links are broken, pages are gone, and as a consequence, some pages are really only halfway there, not unlike a decaying book 
All that is just a long way of saying I’ve moved, but parts of me are still strewn across ten years worth of the web
—and that all my attempts at a meaningful first post have fizzed out after a paragraph 
Update: It occurred to me today that, aside from a handful of browser testcases, there are likely no pages on ardisson.org that are HTML 4 Strict, nor are there any that even validate (no matter what DOCTYPE they declare). That’s detritus of an entirely different kind; more on that in the future.