Site Info

Site Title: Brett's Weird Theses
Person Responsible For The Whole Shebang: Brett Witty
First opened: Sometime in 1997 I think.

Brief History
Ages ago I had a friend over and we talked about (surprise, surprise) girls and how they didn't make sense and so forth. We essentially formulated the idea of the Women's Wide World Web. Sometime later I wrote it up on the web and opened up the new site on Geocities. From then on, whenever I had some crazy idea for an article, I just wrote it up and whacked it on the site. There was little in the way of forward planning or anything. Things like the Weird Ones and the many Things To Do When You're Bored just came spontaneously (as did the site title). Sometimes it shows (Weird Ones meanders around like a blind drunk), sometimes not.
There have been several changes to the site. I had a section of just one-liners or short snippets that really couldn't be expanded into a full article. After a while, it began to get really dodgy and after a few readers' suggestions, I removed it. I also had some ideas about a MP3 series of skits revolving around a radio jockey that was really good in theory, but in practice, sucked big time. It didn't get past the pilot.
At some point, Altavista contacted me to essentially get me to sign away my entire site and content to them for some reason or another. I didn't particularly enjoy that (except for the recognition of being a worthwhile venture to nab). So I let it go. Not long after, Bob from a new company Bla-bla contacted me about an offer of a new website and all these wonderful extras that didn't really have any strings attached, including free domain name registration. I even got a small bit of money from ad-serving. They were great guys and helped out whenever they could.
Unfortunately, as most dotcoms do, they ran out of money or something and were bought up by UGO. Under some new agreement I had to change this and that and so forth. I was currently in Uni and had little time/enthusiasm to spend lots of time on the site. UGO wasn't so great. And the fact that they kinda owned me but didn't even have a link to my site, wasn't so great.
Then UGO (apparently) had a similar dilemma to Bla-bla, they wouldn't host me any more. So off elsewhere I had to go.
That was sometime early in 2002. I was stuck in the dilemma of moving my site and so forth, or abandoning it. For the past so many years I had gotten a lot of nice comments and so forth, but also a lot of annoying, not-so-nice comments. So was it worth setting the site up again? And if I did, would I give it the graphical update I'd promised for ages?
I flicked one way and then another, depending on how hard my Honours degree was going. My current girlfriend insisted that I keep going, especially considering the massive amounts of hits the site had been getting when I wasn't looking.
So here we are.

I'm close to the only worker on this site. Nathan Connor and Joel Gilmore have written articles and some people have submitted art work and suggestions.

The Future
Things I'd like to do in the future, given time:

  • Make The Weird Ones into a CG online comic, or make some sort of CG online omic.
  • Finish The Weird Ones third chapter.
  • Finish my articles on Movies, Conspiracy theories and World Domination (three separate articles).

Weird Facts

  • Not including The Weird Ones, there's some 38,000 words of text here. Something like a 110 page novel or something.
  • The Weird Ones itself is about 26,000 words of text. Pretty good with little to no planning :)
  • The site gets approximately 15,000 hits a month. Not fantastic, but not lame either.

Written By: Brett Witty
Researched By: Brett Witty and his magical computer.

Copyright © Brett Witty, 2002.