Why am I leaving The Useless Pages? After four years at this racket (which is
about 20 years in Internet Time), it's time for me to move on. Many would say I
should have moved on two years ago. A few would say I should have never started
in the first place.
There have been many high points - being quoted in the New York Times,
Wired and The New Yorker, to name three, were neat things to put
on my resume. Being mentioned by none other than Dave Barry was definitely a
high point. Being mentioned by several now-defunct Internet magazines - well,
if you don't mention that, neither will I, OK?
But that was then, and this is also then. For the longest time, I could have
honestly said I ran the funniest site on the Web. Of course, now we have The Onion, The Brunching Shuttlecocks, and
several others, so I'm having trouble even making the Top Ten. But that's a
Good Thing - it would be a sad World Wide Web indeed if the best we could come
up with after all this time was a stupid list pointing to stupid sites like The Big Green Button.
Several thanks are in order:
First and foremost, Paul
Phillips
, creator of The Useless Pages, and the one who got me on
go2net,
Ron Lussier and Dan Greening,
for hosting me when I needed to be hosted,
Mr. John, for bravely
taking over The Useless Pages,
Al Gore for personally inventing the Internet single-handedly,
And last but not least, Regina Chavez-Berlin, because you're supposed to
mention your Significant Other in lists such as this.