Take Back The Web

June 26th 2005

Ah, the old sean, flipping the camera off at any oppurtunity   Ah the internet, sadly enough some of my fonder memories are based on the internet. Over half a decade ago I was searching for pictures of Oderus Urungus, or getting fired up in some chatroom getting angry with someone who was saying that my favorite bands suck. The amount of fun I had was unbelievable, I spent hours upon hours trying to figure out how to make a table, or set up frames. We grew with infomercials selling exercise devices called AssShaper2000 and thinking "wow that must be futuristic! I mean it's the technology from the year 2000". Now you hear "2000" and it's the past, out of date, a forgotten era. Where were you in the future? Heck, I was probably coding HTML and making ass ugly websites.  In all honesty it sounds kind of pathetic, but nothing compares to staying up until the sun pops up, and then trying to destroy the sun by spraying Lysol out the door in an act of revenge and an attempt to gain a few more precious hours of nighttime. 

CLICK EMAIL SKELETON  Sure there were a ton of terrible sites back then, but the fact was you and all your friends had sites, piss-poor grammar, center tags, blood bars, image links with massive ugly borders, rants that make no sense or are just so bland and generic that anyone could write them, but hey you had something! Everyone was working all night trying to make something creative, even if creative was getting a bunch of stuff from "Gifs That Don't Suck" and stealing a background that makes all text unreadable. 
This isn't just nostalgia though, I honestly loved looking at my friend's updates, "Wow dude, that's nice how you changed the background color of that table, took out those underlines on the links, what? CSS? is this witchcraft you speak of?"

UNHOLY AND EVIL Your site must be evil! it has pentagrams and generic red skulls on a brick backgrounds. LOL your site is scary! And you linked to rotten.com, man you'd better put a disclaimer on your site so you don't get emails from angry christian and parent groups. 
These young wiipper-snappers with their  livejournals and myspaces won't understand the appeal of this stuff. They can take their lens flares, blog generators, ♥'s and everything else and shove them up their "space".  The way i see it right now is that everyone that used to be in the website game has just gotten fat and lazy with journals and such, they've lost their way and need to rediscover how great it was to actually work at something and be semi-creative. I've dedicated myself to trying to start a new webring, a network of sites like how it used to be. I'm just reminding people of how it used to be. Hell if you never had a site then go to angelfire and use the page generator, Chances are you'll have fun making a page that's not just a myspace thingie, yeah the networking aspect is fun, but adding a friend on a blog isn't as great as saying "hey, check out my site, i'll link you up" .

UNDER CONSTRUCTION BITCHES This site is by all means a throwback site, that's it, nothing more. It's my personal page, and I have to say that every night i go to bed feeling that i actually did accomplish something, I know that next to no one reads this, but next to no one is still more than no one. Join the Brutal Fat way of life, get a site and slap up a bunch of "Coming Soon" pages with "Under Construction" graphics. then sign my guestbook,  you'll have an audience of at least one. In fact, to make yourself feel better and make things seem more professional, you should always refer to yourself as "we". I may have to start doing that,  start saying "We here at brutalfattery.com...". Well maybe not, in fact it hurt me enough stealing all these images for this page. For now, stay fat, start a site, join the revolution.