Welcome To HotWired! (11 years on the web??)
July 27th, 2006
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HotWired! Demo - 1995 - (via Waxy (via gyford))
Allow me to get a bit nostalgic for a moment…..
The web. I remember sitting in a back room at Acton watching the Web evolve. Watching it invent itself. Working… Learning…
Syd gave me my first job on the web. Before that, I was working at a coffee/bagel shop. But then, there I was, hacking on a copy of BBEdit 3 (?), learning basic shell unix commands from pohl, doing server-side animated GIFs with perl, working on the early OmahaSteaks site and piggybacking web hosting for my record label (see an 11 year old announcement for the site here - fun!), and, of course, reading suck.
In one capacity or another, I’ve been behind the screen ever since, and in the last year, 11 years of web working have culminated in the biggest changes and biggest opportunities I’ve experienced.
Almost a year ago, my wife and I uprooted from our home, family and friends, in Lincoln, Nebraska, so that I could take a job to work for CNET News.com, which recently developed into a position as Product Manager. I consider myself to be extremely lucky to have the opportunity to be a part of a high profile project with incredibly talented team of designers, engineers, producers, writers and editors, working on RSS, podcasts, blogs, design and usability… you name it.
It’s a challenge, and I am thrilled.
I still see potential and possibilities on the web - and I am even more inspired now than I was when HotWired was dishing up the harshest neon color palates imagineable.
Good things… great things to come.
I don’t write much about personal issues on this blog, and I write about work related things even less. Maybe that will change - maybe not. But, taking time to look back is important. See where you have been. Imagine the possibilities of where you can go….
Then, go there!
