A short history of Chet on the Net
I made my first web site in 1996. Oh, that’s 10 years ago! It was for HTML practice to help me in a new area of my job – managing and maintaining the company’s web site.
But I’ve been on the Net longer than 10 years. My first foray onto the Net was in late 1989. I was given an email account as a grad student at the University of California, San Diego. One day, a friend told me about newsgroups and showed me how to read them from my email account. That was where I found the kdlang newsgroup and made friends who later opened their homes to me when I travelled around the States before returning home in 1991.
After I came home, I was missing the newsgroups so much but eventually found something similar – BBSs (which I think stands for Bulletin Board Service).
The Internet came to Malaysia in 1995, via Jaring. I was one of the first to sign up.
Dabbled with GeoCities in the early days – didn’t everybody who eventually went on to have their own domains?
After I came back from visiting my San Diego Zoo pandas in 2001, I decided to register my own domain, which was how www.chetscorner.com came about. It wasn’t my first choice domain name, but both chet.com and chet.net had been taken. I’d used Chet’s Corner from day 1 of my presence on the Net – I thought it described where I am on the Net, in my own little corner.
www.chetscorner.com is still there, but hardly updated. These days, I post at Chet’s Chatter, my weblog. I called it Chet’s Chatter version 3, as I’ve had two previous weblogs, all with the same name. By now, you probably can tell how much I love my name, and how little imagination I have.
One of the reasons why www.chetscorner.com is hardly updated is because it uses HTML. These days, there’s CMS (Content Management System) which makes it very easy to update and maintain web sites. My company’s web site, started in 1996, has gone through two upgrades. The first two used good old HTML; the third and current version is run by CMS. I myself just registered another domain which, when it is up and running, will be run by CMS. More information when the time is right.
