Space Ninja History

Space Ninja Cave Painting

I first got online in the early 90s. While some of my friends were goofing around on BBS‘s, I was using my dad’s Compuserve account to post icons I had designed for Windows 3.1. Later on, in 1995, I had dial-up Internet access at home, and a friend had shown me Joe the Circle, one of the first webcomics. This really kick-started my interest in web design, and I had a website on Geocities that year. The idea for Yellow Number Five was born around this time. I graduated high school in 1996, and my early website (which was already coded by hand) moved to Xoom, and then later to my first ISP, SpiritOne, when I started working at Egghead.

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Fun With Google

Text Mode

so, last night, i decided to return to an oooooollldd project of mine. but… it’s also the highest-bandwidth use of this server. so, to avoid killing every other site sharing the dsl with it, i opted to host the graphics on a separate server (my desktop machine, with speedy apartment ethernet.)

unfortunately, i have zero disk space. i don’t have enough to rebuild the linux kernel, which i need to do to enable firewalling. i want to have firewalling enabled so i can safely allow traffic only to the web and ssh ports (and chargen, for good measure, tee hee!)- blocking off X and printers from malicious demons and such.

so now i’m running high-res text mode. 100×40 with an 85hz refresh rate. aww yeah baby.

but it has put a crimp in development of other cool projects, like MK:A.

still.. i’m kinda proud of the setup ;)

Where's Steve?

Some of you may have noticed that it’s mostly Miles and myself posting here, and that Steve has barely said anything at all.

Why is this, you might be asking yourself? Could it be because Steve runs his own server, lives a fast lifestyle in california, and maintains about a dozen other websites, most of which he also doesn’t post to very frequently? Perhaps he just doesn’t like talking?

No, none of these answers are correct. The truth of the matter is that “Steve” is a simple PHP script that Miles and I wrote. He doesn’t actually exist. We don’t let the script post very often because it doesn’t sound entirely like a real person, and it uses excessive punctuation. Miles has been trying to find that bug for over a year now, even though the popularity of Pokey the Penguin is almost entirely due to that bug.

So why are we coming forward with the truth now? Well, Miles and I are tired of living a lie. And more importantly, we’re tired of “Steve” getting all the credit for everything. “I created Fojar! I made Pokey! I’m responsible for Hatelife!!!!!!!JA:LKDJFAAAAA” (see, you can see the script break down there after ‘hatelife’).

Miles and I wrote the code for “Steve” and then allowed it to create websites at random. We registered several domain names in it’s name. We had no way of knowing that a simple program could get this big an ego.