Well I guess it all started when I first started doing web stuff. I had my first website with geocities and then my first real website at djdtm.vze.com hosted by a good friend of mine, Scott. There I wanted to build a community of people who liked making goofy videos on the internet because I was always about making goofy videos and putting them on my website. This was before youtube. I didn't have the programming capacity to build as intricate as an interface as youtube, and when youtube came out my dream was shattered. So then I began building my own online presence to show off the things that I did. It went well for a minute until I tried making another community for people who shared the same interests as I did, using and heavily integrating my site with PHPBB. This was also before myspace.
So in my attempt at making a name for myself on the internet I was shot down by all possible angles. I wanted to invent the social network, but no one even knew who I was. I participated in online communities for games I was interested in, Starcraft and Jedi Knight. Even different modding communities for different games. This aspect of the internet was what interested me so.
Because I was so ahead of the curve I was left in the dust by my many attempts as an individual trying to make the internet a connecting point for people which the very purpose of is to find other individuals to work together.
Here is how I'm still ahead of the curve. I recognize the human aspect of the internet on a variety of scales, from the individual scale (what is interesting, and how do I share this), that many people still don't understand, to the massive scale (I believe this is right, and want to change the world). Even though I may not have a big of a presence as I could have right now, I have helped build the presences of hundreds of businesses. This means that I understand the mentality of living without the internet as well as living with the internet.
I'm just trying to mesh the two together, and I still already have good ideas how, and now the needed resources to make it happen.
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