For several years, this page served as a place where I could be found and contacted as a link from my main website, which was originally hosted on GeoCities, then moved to Tripod after GeoCities closed in 2009. In April of 2026, Tripod was shut down, along with Angelfire, both of which were free web-hosting services offered by Lycos. Apparently the crush of AI-generated web traffic just became unsustainable for a free web host.

In 2024, it was estimated that AI-generated web traffic exceeded the amount of traffic generated by humans, and it has only increased since then. By the end of the 2020s, it's estimated that 90% of Internet traffic will be generated by AI bots rather than by humans. This was certainly reflected in the messages which I received through this site: I received no messages from people anymore, but what I did receive was no end of advertising from bots which had somehow found this page and thought it would be a great idea to offer me services in "promoting my site".

I don't hate or oppose AI. I think it's a useful technology which can help people. But from the perspective of this website, I have little reason to try to maintain a website which nobody's reading anymore, nor do I really have a reason to maintain a "Contact me" page where AI bots can send me automated messages about how I can increase my website's market reach when I was never even selling anything here, but rather trying to offer information to the world. The site was being scanned by bots more than by human eyes, which I don't have a problem with (bots are allowed to read, too), but judging by the messages they sent me, they weren't really interested in reading anything I wrote; they just wanted to sell to me. Ironically, it was these overzealous offers to "promote your site" which wound up taking a lot of websites offline: Not only my site was affected, but every other site which had been hosted for decades on Tripod and Angelfire.

The idea of having a personal website has become an idea which belongs to the past. It was a very current idea when I first opened my site on GeoCities in 1998, but now, nearly 30 years later, people don't seem to have much interest in what was here anyway. As far as I understand, I believe most of the content I had has been backed up on the Internet Archive anyway, so if you want to find something from my old site, hopefully you can find it there.

Whoever you may be out there, I wish you health, happiness, safety, and inspiration in this brave new world where machines have taken over every role which humans once served. I will remember us, and wonder who we were.