I’m calling it time. Deep in the mists of time, I started putting material online sometime in either late 1994 or 1995. I honestly can’t remember. I think all that early stuff has disappeared (it was a tilde directory to VICNET), but by the late 1990s I was building websites for various causes, mostly for community conferences and causes. And I can’t even remember the www address some of the dead websites to look for! The Internet Archive only started trawling in the late 1990s.
By the 2000s I was playing with automated platforms for a number of different organisations and affiliations. But I was never a coder, just a tinkerer and in fact, I had no skill at all in keeping up the requirements of various platforms. I ended up doing websites because my academic colleagues didn’t have a clue. This is while we were trying to remain independent of the control of faculty-run websites. And Facebook for all its evils, was and can a pleasure, but it’s not a great place for longer writing. So here we go. My posting has been a mix of academic writing, political advocacy, and just fun.
You can catch up with past materials on the Internet archive. A lot of academic papers can be found via Google Scholar and look on the Internet archive for more recent ones.
But life is more than scholarship. I’ve been involved in a lot of socially-connected activity and writing over the years. See the Internet Archive as well. Any my Facebook page has tens of thousands of words.
But it’s time to be more reflective across a range of things, so that is what I will be trying here. I wish I could find my first webpage!
