I obviously don't have the greatest website, nor the one with the most content in the world, but I'm mostly content with it for now.

I began making sites in January of 1999 (wow, three years now) on a virtual game called Petz. I had learned on other Petz sites how to hex (modify files in the program to produce a custom Catz or Dogz breed) and I wanted to display my own breeds as I had seen others do (as well as show off my Petz, named after my own alias at the time).

That grew over the next two years. Eventually I ended up with a lot more features than just breeds on my site (custom-hexed clothes, settings, etc., as well as a tutorial on HTML -- mostly stuff to be of service to other Petz users since I enjoyed creating and distributing such stuff). I also eventually registered a (now defunct) domain name and offered web-based email and subdomain redirects for whoever wanted them.

However, that community got old quickly (as well as hostile), so I ended up leaving and following a new trend: Personal sites.

I don't even want to go into that. The community is much friendlier but all the sites look and sound the same. They all fit one standard, and they all have the basics (name, age [usually 13-20], short, stylish biography, display of "digital art" [I don't consider it art anymore] and writing, etc.).

Popular in that particular community was hosting: Owning a domain and allowing a friend or a complete stranger who impressed you ot use a portion of your space. With the proper hosting company you could avoid security conflicts by giving them their own login through FTP and their own subdomain. That interested me, so after saving up enough money, I bought my own domain (still in use) in June (July?) of last year.

I started to grow away from the personal site standard, though, and focused more on what I enjoyed in my site. I offered hosting but no one really impressed me enough for me to consider letting them share a portion of what I paid for (all the sites I submitted were basically customized clones).

Before then, I found RinkWorks thanks to Sosi and began visiting forum and chat. Around that time I started keeping logs of amusing chats and, having seen a quotes page from another Rinky, decided to make my own.

That's grown now (fourteen pages, I believe, some longer than others), as well as my AIM quotes section and the few bits of art and writing I've selected to keep up on my site. I also have one hostee (now that Sarah has moved to her own domain), Monkeyman, who posted previously. I can safely say he adds a bit more content to the domain than I could hope to, so I can laze a bit. ;)

ri "Quite happy with my domain now, although I want to add more content if I can think of more to add" a