lance

after watching lance.com for over ten years, hoping that one day an intern or someone would forget to renew it, i gave in and bought lance.net. close enough.

not much here, but i felt like it needed something here, and i do enjoy the bare-bones HTML styles of the past. while i'd love to say that i hand-coded this entire thing, that's not completely true. this entire site is a claude code project. using claude code, i created an entire bare-bones editor that supports direct html creation (for what you're reading here / each page here i am writing the html by hand), file upload/management, new page creation, and a few settings to make minor ui tweaks.

if you want to check out the page creator for yourself, you can create your own site (100% free) - head on over to my page builder to get started. i'm a generous guy, so you get 20mb of storage. just pretend it's 1998, and 20mb is an unheard of amount again.

i'm a fan of internet nostalgia, and enjoy pining for the simpler times when the internet was something you weren't carrying in your pocket. when it was something whose talons sinking into every single aspect of our existence wasn't even an iota of a thought.

the internet used to be something you had to want. you dedicated time to it. you sat down in front of your computer (which by default was off), waited for the boot-up beeps and boops, had to listen as your modem dialed a number (781.336.4447 - galaxy internet services!) and then screamed in agony for what felt like forever, after which you had to wait patiently as netscape navigator as your broswer painstakingly rendered a page, or you downloaded a local copy of all of your emails. hell, for most of us the computer was such a mysterious, powerful entity that we gave it it's own room, or at least a significant portion of a communal room.

during some downtimes, i've managed to find more than a few remnants of older, simpler, more meaningful times. i've linked a few of them on the nostalgia page. i have wiby.org to thank for most of them, check out wiby if you want to be transported back in time. i prefer the "surprise me" link.