I've decided to write up a history of the changes I made to this site since it's inception. Unfortunately, my memory is a bit hazy, so many of the earlier changes (that weren't documented) will be a little off in the timeline, but the general ideas should be there.
I can't remember the exact date that the seminar was held, but the Math department at the University of Waterloo held a tutorial on creating your own web page. I thought that it was a pretty cool idea even though there wasn't actually much out there, but I had heard about the internet and was interested to learn.
I believe CN (who later became CN) was the one who gave the tutorial. The tutorial itself was fairly short and simple, but the tools at the time and the language was also very simple. We were working with HTML (version 1.0) and there was a limited number of browsers available to view our work (like Lynx and Mosaic).
The website itself was very simple: There was only one page and it was basically a "Who am I" type of website (like most beginner websites). I chose to name the site "The PIT" as I was spodding at the time and had a room on a talker called "Cat's Cradle" which I had called "The PIT" and figured that it was as good as a name as any. The background was black, and the font was a dark green, and I really didn't have any good ideas as to what I was going to do with this site..
During those first couple of months, I decided to turn the website into a quotes resource, starting with my list of Murphy's Laws that I had gotten from Dee. This actually took quite some time as I was never satisfied as to the layout or colour scheme that I was using. After several months of intensive work, I stopped working on the site and it began to gather dust..
