The Naked Dancing Llama and I

Sometimes I don't know how to feel about the Naked Dancing Llama homepage I created in the 90s. I wrestle with revamping and investing in the site, ending it, acknowledging it, denying it, feeling entitled because of it, feeling belittled because of it.

This showed up in the Naked Dancing Llama forum earlier this year and made me smile.

horray for retro 1990s sites:

AGS : internet history, llama

I first found the NDL site in the early 90s -- could it have been here

as early as 1994?

Remember the first Fishcam? Hamsterdance when it was new? The

Information Supercollider at CERN? Doofus the Ferret King?

The web has grown up, gotten commercial (in the early days that was

against the rules!), developed an entirely different look. Most of the

fun, silly, and simple websites from the dawn of the web have

disappeared.

NDL is still the same. Or close to the same -- I remember when it

upgraded to this new look and got the midi soundtrack. It was originally

basic gray like the rest of the web.

Viva le llama. An artifact of the web's roots. If this were in the real

world, this site would now have a historical marker.

And for all you whippersnappers who don't REMEMBER the early web and

don't know the history of the internet..

The History of the Internet: Happy 20th Birthday, World Wide Web

Keep on dancin' - Skidoo

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Thanks, Skidoo. If I've managed to contribute to Internet History, then that's awesome. And it explains why I'm attracted to other items I know will go down in Internet History, like "The Guild."

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Every day we create something and put it out there that wasn't there before, we make history. That's my new goal - to create the kind of content that is boldly new, different, and lives in unexplored territory. That mindset can keep someone fueled for a lifetime.