At this age of Web mania, obviously the focal points are IPOs, mega-mergers and showy dot-coms. While a small number of people are getting very rich with the blessings of website technology, my attention turns to another aspect of this issue, building homepages
OF THE PEOPLE
BY THE PEOPLE
FOR THE PEOPLE
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I signed up geocities' membership one year ago, and up to that point I had already been thinking about constructing my homepage for quite a while. Unfortunately I was distracted from time to time. Usually my likings are divergent, changing and numerous. In the name of extensive reading, I frequented libraries although most of the distinguished magazines already had launched their online edition. I was also to some degree interested in writing, but I didn't realize that only internet surfers could leave me the most instructive and critical review on whatever I could ever compose. To be honest, I enjoyed travelling and meeting interesting people in the physical world rather than surfing internet and online chatting. Finally, I was prone to procrastination to such an extent that for a whole year, apart from reading emails I seldom trouble connecting my computer to the internet, let alone updating my disfavored homepage.
It was not until the Millennium Eve did I find what an unproductive year I had spent, without having any undertaking that I could even get proud of. I was asked then whatever achievement I had attained for this past year. To my astonishment my reply was as simple as I had only made a serious decision to do something that might not seem very easy. Yet I was not quite sure what it would be. Ironically it could be anything, as everything new to me should be challenging. I have since been wrestling with this baffling psychology until I found myself starting to build a decent homepage.
Obviously, this is not an easy challenge. But I don't think it that hard either.
-March 10th, 2000
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