Nearly everything I put on the web between 1996 and 2013 - hand-built home pages, 3 eras of blogs, a podcast, some photos and a small stack of policy papers. Pick a chapter below or, if you have the time, start at the beginning and walk it forward the way I wrote it.
1996 to 2002, on Freejack's Web and early byte.org
My first sites - hand-built in a world-readable home directory on iDirect as ~freejack, then here at byte.org. Fonts, something I inexplicably called a "Brag Sheet", an unofficial IE 4.0 preview site and the occasional rant. Proto-blogging in a lot of ways, and it eventually turned into the real thing.
2002 to 2003, on Radio UserLand and Movable Type
Random Bytes started in July 2002 on Radio UserLand. Bret Fausett introduced me to it - a blogging tool that ran on my desktop, which seemed like a good idea at the time. I moved to Movable Type because I didn't want to be tied to publishing from a single computer.
2003 to 2009, on Blogware
The long run - more than 2,000 posts on Blogware between 2003 and 2009. I was excited enough about blogs that we built Blogware to compete with Typepad, Radio and the rest. A lot of domains and ICANN, code (my running take on the evolving internet, with a hat tip to Lessig's "Code Is Law"), photo sets from policy trips from Rome to Cape Town and what I called moblogs at the time - short posts sent to a separate blog by SMS from wherever I was. Proto-Twitter, really. If we'd thought it through, we might have had something big on our hands. And a podcast.
2004 to 2005, on Blogware
28-ish shows between October 2004 and June 2005, a couple of holiday specials and a spin-off called 5:15. It started out as "Robot Radio" (for 5 shows) and somehow ended up on Global TV. For a while it was a real thing, with real listeners, and it showed up regularly in the "top podcasts" lists of the day.
2009 to 2013, on WordPress
Fewer posts, longer ones - customer service sagas, the CIRA election and the business of the internet. By then we'd shut down Blogware, we hadn't been able to make a go of Blogrolling.com and I was putting my energy into things other than blogging.
2011, on Posterous
"sometimes i take pictures. sometimes i share them." 21 photos from the fall of 2011. I enjoyed curating these, but life had other plans for my time and it wasn't long before I stopped keeping it up.
Before I started posting photos to the blog, I put them in folders - 9 sets from 2002 to 2006: Accra, Rio de Janeiro, Rio: the people, Ice fishing, The shower, Snow day, Wordsworth, March 2003, Washington in spring, Bon Echo.
I worked on domain policy from 1997 to 2006. These are some of the working papers from that time - Registrar Constituency: transfers, Registrar Constituency: deletes, Bylaws working group, DNSO universal Whois, and more.
