Journal entries in 'Miscellaneous' for September, 2004

I was talking with my boss today about the beginnings of the internet, and he mentioned that he remembers when there were about 50 web servers on the net. This got me thinking about my own confused beginnings on the internet. I remember the first time that CompuServe offered its members internet access, which was apparently on April 14, 1995. I clicked the button for "The Internet" and was presented with CompuServe's website. I clicked around a little bit but couldn't find any way to reach anything that wasn't CompuServe related. I had heard about all the wonderous and varied things available on the World Wide Web, and was frustrated that I couldn't find where to click to get at all that stuff.

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I came across this article, in which people guiltily confess the embarassing selections on their iPods. I laughed, because it's a subject I'm quite familiar with. I thought I would offer a list of some of the more questionable selections in my MP3 collection. Of course there's the usual oddities that noone whose computer has graced a university network can avoid, like Right Said Fred and the Oh Yeah song from Ferris Beuller. Everybody has those (...right?). But I imagine some of the other things in my collection are less ubiquitous.

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