{"id":3509,"date":"2011-09-12T08:57:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T12:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=3509"},"modified":"2011-09-11T12:19:45","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T16:19:45","slug":"the-evolution-of-starkeith-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2011\/09\/12\/the-evolution-of-starkeith-net\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evolution of StarKeith.net"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been 10 years since the domain StarKeith.net was registered, so let’s take a trip down memory lane and look at how the site (or the home page of the site, at least) has evolved over the years.<\/p>\n

Way back in November of 2001, not long after my domain was registered and my hosting set up, StarKeith.net was little more than a “coming soon” page.<\/p>\n

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You can see the logo I had created for the site – both the text (in a futuristic\/computer-y style font) and the round StarKeith logo I had invented as a kid. Back then, I had envisioned using the domain to build upon the fictional world I had invented for some stories I wrote as a kid. In a way, this was sort of a variation on the modern websites that spring up around popular science fiction shows – for example, Memory Alpha<\/a>, a wiki for Star Trek. My original idea of StarKeith.net was similar to what Memory Alpha became years later.<\/p>\n

By 2003, the site had begun to take shape:<\/p>\n

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You can see the design influences that Star Trek had on me back then. I deliberately patterned the site’s layout and style on the LCARS<\/a> style from Star Trek: The Next Generation (of which I was – and still am – a huge fan).<\/p>\n

By 2005 however, the main landing page of StarKeith.net had changed to be more of a “portal” for the various web projects I had hosted here. By this time, I had my own blog, my old personal site back from when I was in college, as well as a short-lived attempt at forums!<\/p>\n

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Eventually, I decided to move away from the fictional part of the site – I had not updated it in quite a while, and my enthusiasm for it was fading. At the same time, my own blog – as well as the blog for my pet rabbits – were becoming quite popular (well, sort of) and I wanted to bring attention to them. Also, I was tired of the black background, so I went with something much simpler and lighter, which leads us to the way the site appears today:<\/p>\n

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The current site works a bit better as a landing page, as well as a general place to point people who are interested in me. Online identity has become much more important these days, and I wanted the main page of StarKeith.net to reflect me<\/em>, rather than the fictional worlds I had created as a kid.<\/p>\n

And there we have it – a brief look back at the evolution of the main page of StarKeith.net over the last 10 years. It’ll be interesting to see where we go in the next 10 years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking back at the history of StarKeith.net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[203,3],"tags":[281,215],"class_list":["post-3509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-technology","category-personal","tag-anniversary","tag-starkeithnet","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-UB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3497,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2011\/09\/12\/ten-years-ago\/","url_meta":{"origin":3509,"position":0},"title":"Ten Years Ago","author":"Keith Survell","date":"September 12, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"This September 12 is the 10-year anniversary of StarKeith.net!","rel":"","context":"In "Internet"","block_context":{"text":"Internet","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/technology\/internet-technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2011\/09\/starkeith.net-whois-record.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1145,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/05\/29\/openid\/","url_meta":{"origin":3509,"position":1},"title":"OpenID","author":"Keith Survell","date":"May 29, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"So, I finally made the jump and signed up for an OpenID - on the recommendation of Jeff Atwood, I chose myopenid.com as my provider. 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