the best of intentions

yes... once there was a way to get back to where we once belonged... and this is one way as it is an internet archive (for as long as it lasts), a repository of every web page ever put on the internet (at least that's the intention... it may miss plenty, but who would know... oh yeah, the page creator looking for their page, that's who)...

all through this life i have beeen in love with the written word and writing started shortly after i could hold a crayon... i set about continuing writing as the internet came along and started putting the writings with the intention of sharing them with anyone who cared to read and creating a web world of words that would preserve my writings long after i was gone... sites offered web pages for life and i believed...

and then they were gone... deleted by one corporation after another... while some of the words are on hard drives on old computers, many were lost forever because i did not have hard copies, only web copies... and then i found that the internet archive saved many of the pages from the original site and the links to the main entrances are explained a bit below... this entry probably has a lot more to say but for now, this is the return of the original web world...

MAIN GATE - ah yes, the replicated main gate was as close as i could get to the original main gate and was meant to be the first page, the portal to the web world i was starting to create in the 1990s... it linked the portals to the other entry points i created along the way that i describe below...

FRONT DOOR - and the front door, the original starting point for me on the web, my first web page, a simply rambling, ever-growing narrative branching off with links to each of the other pages that started my writing on the web...

WINDOW - influenced by the beatles she came in through the bathroom window and melissa's come to my window and other references including the many stories in which friends visited each other through windows from the romantic visits at juliet's balcony (or jasmine's) to the best friend visits in forrest gump or dawson's creek or more recently, twilight... personally, my own window was a profound visitation point for my best friend and my first love... so here i was welcoming those who truly wanted to know me past the fears and lies and suspicions, here i welcomed potential true friends...

BACK DOOR - not quite as close and personal as the window, though it pretty much replaced the main gate, front door, and window once att deleted the entire web world i trusted to their free web page service... i still feel the burn and loss, though the wayback machine helps...

THE WRITTEN GARDENS - this was the cover page, the portal to the creative writing and eventually, to almost all of the writings i put on the web for those who wanted to read and not necessarily want the personal contact the other paths offered...

CROSSROADS - and this was the table of contents found after entering the written gardens, the single page directly linking all the other parts of the web world i created back then... it was presented in three sections, the top being the creative theme writings, the middle section (the gardens of ones) explained below, and the bottom section the personal writings of journals, diaries, blogs, and so on... at the very bottom of the page the odds and ends were linked...

GARDENS OF ONES - once upon a time i dedicated a book to writings inspired by specific people and each section contained were rhymes and letters inspired by individuals who moved me to write to, for, or about them in some way...

NEWSBEE'S UNIVERSE - the public writings in newsgroups and other public places on the web were collected here as i spent much time in conversations using the handle newsbee...

WEBBOT'S WORLD - and webbot was the alter-ego of anonanonanon (and this handle still represents me on facebook when i find time to go there), though webbot's world barely got off the ground before att deleted everything...

OLD GATE - and even before the loss of all the words and images linked here to att's greed, all of this was rebuilt on the att site after disney deleted the first web world i created that was the core of everything linked from the portals listed here that then expanded into what is linked here... this became a simple page explaining my frustration of losing everything...