📝 CyberLog 1999: Personal Web Journal

There is an unrepeatable magic to coding raw HTML in Windows Notepad at two in the morning. Outside my bedroom window, the suburb is completely silent. Inside, the only sounds are the steady whir of my PC cooling fan and the rhythmic clatter of the keyboard.

Tonight I finished restructuring my website using CSS style rules instead of bloated nested <table> grids. It feels cleaner, lighter, and more intentional. The World Wide Web is still young, wild, and non-commercial. Anyone with a $20 dialup account and a text editor can publish their thoughts to the entire planet. That democratization of information is the purest ideal of cyberspace.

Spent the evening dual-booting Red Hat Linux 6.0 alongside Windows 98. Getting XFree86 to recognize my Voodoo3 monitor modelines took three hours of manual XF86Config editing, but when the desktop environment finally initialized with Enlightenment window manager, the satisfaction was immense!