Ricky's Theory on the History of the Homepage
My Theory on the History of the Homepage
The concept of the personal homepage, in my mind, has evolved greatly since
the early days of the Web. As far as I can tell, the homepage began as a place
to put the addresses of all the sites its owner frequented. This made it easier
for the owner to entangle themself in the web. People used to use other
people's homepages as starting points as well, if they were interested in
similar things. Then with the advent of such well organized and seemingly
comprehensive collections of links like
Yahoo!, the personal list of links and the original point of homepages
became pointless. Then, as more people frequented each other's homepages, it
was found necessary by the masses to use their homepage as one more means of
expressing their inherant coolness (the quantity of which is always in
question), but of course, the old "hot list" remained, although that name is
not always used. So, now in our current state of entanglement, the "homepage"
is an element of self-expression filled with useless information that one hopes
other people will look at. Because of such indices as
Yahoo! I have abandoned the archaic concept
of the hot list and included only information of my own creation.
And of course, if you have comments, flames, pizza, or money, send them to
rickyr@andrews.edu.
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