Why is this the "Boring Homepage"?

Cheap way out: I don't remember.

More accurately, it was one of two things:

--My freshman roommate, Rohit Modak, took a look at my page when it first appeared in 1994 and said nice things about it. But when it hadn't significantly changed a month later, he called it, well, "Boring." I might have just taken it as a badge of honor. Or...

-- ...Well, self-deprecation is really one of my strong suits. No, really. See, when I first discovered the World Wide Web in the fall of 1994, there were really three types of web pages:

  1. Super-charged, graphics-intensive sites (there was a Calvin and Hobbes site that comes to mind) that I couldn't see because I had a text browser running on my college's UNIX system;
  2. Prototypical information sites like the original SportsZone, before it became part of the Disney family of networks; and
  3. Straight text pages of links to the first two types of sites, pages which stood out only if they included a catalog of the webmaster's CD collection.
So when I first figured out how to make my personal directory world-readable, I had a decision to make, but one that was incredibly simple. I couldn't see graphics, so Class I was out. The most useful information I had was Columbia Fencing results. Class II was pretty much out. Which left, as I wrote under an "UNDER CONSTRUCTION -- PAGE LEGALLY CLOSED" disclaimer, "Just another boring page of links." I didn't even put my CD collection online (granted, it wasn't that big then).

Things have gotten a little more interesting around here -- some of my Rangers and Nighthawks pages are informative and/or entertaining, and when I needed to maintain it, my AHL Newspapers page was the second-best on the Web. But for better or for worse, the nickname has stuck. However it appeared in the first place.

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Mike Fornabaio-- mef17@oocities.com