Yahoo unveiled its new improved search engine today. So I figured that I would do a search on my name to see what other stuff I could discover.
Funnily enough, this site now comes out as the first result. (Imagine some companies pay people to do that !!!!) I also found a lot of old stuff.
I got on to the Internet for real back in 1995 when I was part of a pilot project for broadband Internet access in the dorms at Laval University in Quebec City. Back then, you could visit the Mosaic site at NCSA to see all the new web sites coming out every day (this was just a wee bit before Netscape 0.94 came out.) I set up a web server on my machine, hosting The Trueman Files) in my dorm room and registered it (follow the link and then search for the Word Trueman on the page (Command-F or Control-F) ... pretty funny.
I also used to play a great first person shooter (Marathon) by the same folks who made the ultra Cool Halo for Xbox. I registered my machine and player name at this site (again click on the link and do a find on my last name; check out the way cool description!) My friend Stephane lived on the floor below me and Patrick worked for the University on the other side of campus (Traffic from playng the game was slowing performance across the campus!). This was before cool headsets and in-game audio, so we would jam a phone between our head and our neck and play for hours until our necks were perma-kinked. Towards the end of our playing sessions (that whole summer!), I would wrap a wool winter scarf (in the middle of summer !) around my head so as to attach the phone to my head.) The better to frag (slaughter) the others with hands free... hehe. Great memories.
You can even find sites where my Quickdraw GX Fan Club was listed as one of the top sites for the Macintosh. The good old days.
'Nuff said. (this expression is in honour of the great Stan Lee of Marvel Comics fame...)