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.
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