Attack of the early 2000's

7/30/2008

It was by chance that I stumbled upon a preserved version of the personal site I had from waaay back in 2000 when I first moved down to San Diego. It was was during those next few months that I came the closest to keeping a journal regularly than I ever had in my life. I kept 9 entries over a year, and updates became more and more sporadic as college life became busier, but boy, they sure covered some of the most important events in my life: 9/11, 21st birthday, first 1/2 marathon, first triathlon, and a even further blast into the past to my very first site.

Two of the random questions I've always asked about myself are "would myself from 5 years ago like who I am now," and "would I like the person I will be in 5 years?" 2001 is a bit more than 5 years ago, but yeah I like that Lou, and I am glad I didn't go on a crazy and unreasonable rant about 9/11. Those were emotional times, but I think I stayed pretty collected in my entry.

Now, I am not so sure I that Lou would like the current one as much. I am more of a conformist, and I do prefer to play it safe more often now. It was on whim way back then that I wandered into my first SDSU TriClub meeting that started me on 3 or 4 following years of triathon-ing. I ventured into surfing. It was my taste of independence. Also, I had much more of a NoCal snottiness in me back then; I would used to complain the shit out of everything. Now, 95% of things are "pretty good" to me, and I like it that way just fine.

Technologically, websites from late 90's/early 2000's are so different. Browser competibility wasn't a huge issue unless you were a giant corporate site, yet some still left the Netscape users completely screwed. AJAX was unheard of, and client-side scripts were left to some messy ass Javascripts. Flash, still in its adolecent stage, was the bane to many browsers that couldn't handle it and created memory leaks left and right (I still have a bitter, bitter taste in my mouth). Neither common "web development" classes or books taught anything about separation of presentation and data. Web hosting was harder to find, had way fewer functionalities, and were DAMN expensive.

Without further ado, the link below will take you to the original loumination.com (haha yep) with the journal link intact... run-on sentences and all! (Note: only the e-Journal link is restored)