Sometime around 2003 I registered the ultrasciencelabs domain and built a website where I could share projects - mostly case mods. Later it became a sandbox for experimenting with various open source CMS platforms. Eventually it went the way of many domains - neglected and lapsed.

Lately I've wanted a place to record and share my project work. A place under my own control- not tethered to an ad-fueled social media site or here-today gone tomorrow blogging platform. A small, lightweight, simple, self-hosted 'homepage' styled like my early 2000s web projects. No tracking cookies, no analystics, no SEO, no javascript bloat, or endless DB queries.

I'm using Datenstrom Yellow as the site "CMS". It uses PHP scripts to generate HTML from markdown files and folder structures. It's easy to use and very fast. Since no database is involved it is very portable- it's just files and folders.

And to kick things off I scraped through my old data CDs and put together a website list pulled from old browser bookmark backups under Archives linkroll. All the sites are great examples of the 'old' net. An eclectic mix ranging from bare-bones .edu pubnix homepages to experimental art projects. Enjoy!

updated 2024/02/29