BasilWeb’s 20th Anniversary Year
Not to be confused with Walt’s Corner, which was started in 2005 and was maintained at that time with iWeb (the fuck is that?). Walt’s Corner lives on BasilWeb.
BasilWeb began in 2003. I was in the process of transitioning out of the army. One of the courses told us to make sure we had a professional email address. Not something that could possibly be a turn-off to hiring authorities. Hey – I’m looking for a job. Please send your application to eat-me@gmail.com.
Email addresses being typically assigned by your Internet Service Provider (ISP), had the potential to no longer be valid should I choose to use another ISP. That left me the usual, gmail or hotmail. I hated to depend on those because they are free. And you know what free means. If any services are free, then you are the product. I decided to open my own domain and settled on basilweb.net. That gave me my own email server and I’ve had the same email address for 20 years this year. My shortened first name at last name web dot net.
To celebrate this personal small anniversary, I had a Zippo engraved. Antique brass finish with the Tree of Life (not to be confused with the Tree of Life – yet another object the Judeo-Christian culture has appropriated for its own uses) engraved on the front, my engraving on the back.
