This is the story of a guy and a website. The website in question is known for not doing the job it was made to do, as it likes to lose the history it was created to index. Said guy tries to cope with the eventual loss of his old websites by said underachiever.
As much as I’d like to say I’m a fanatic of forward-thinking, I am a lover of history. This story in particular focuses on the history of the sites I visit, and why I seemed to get the short end of the stick.
In freshman year of college, I got infected by my first virus and oddly it corrupted all my CSS and JPG files. So pretty much any site I had designed from 2000 to 2002 was gone. Sure I still had the code, but it wasn’t the same without the images. Fast forward to ...