I wrote about a website I made when I was right after highschool on the music scene in Dallas. I think I did it mostly to learn how to make webpages. Back then these bulletin board scripts were trending… before Facebook. The scripts are kind of like Twitter, probably the best comparison to bulletin boards. Main topic, with replies, user profile pictures, register and login. I picked up a webserver and installed one of the premade scripts. The topic at first was the DFW rave scene and the message board took off, and a lot of people started registering on it and posting articles and comments. I’m barely 18, 19, 20 and the servers costing me about a hundred dollars a month, then I found out the script I was using needed a subscription that I couldn’t afford, so I redid the website with an opensource, free, version that didn’t need a subscription fee. It turned out to be a German content management script that was based off of another Content Management script that was very popular at the time. So in all I learned how to use Vbulletin, PHPBB, Postnuke then Joomla. I went from knowing some basic html from Highschool to knowing how to run webservers and scripting in PHP.
This website on the party scene, at the time I was going to club festivals, and I ran into some people that were posting on this message board that I had setup. Before I knew it, I had quite a few people I considered friends that I would see now and then out in Dallas. Somehow, I got invited into a dance group. It was kind of corny, but it was fun. Yeah, I didn’t know how to dance too well at first… sometimes I’d be drunk and see people out there dancing on the dance floor and I’d go out there too and do whatever to dance also. I only ever danced when I was drunk, so I can’t imagine how stupid I might have looked. Well after the invitation to the dance group, I kept practicing something called pop-locking and I might have done okay now and then. Lots of drunk happening here. Some people in our dance group could break dance also. Which was cool to watch, but I wasn’t much of a floor dancer person though I tried.
Fast forward several years later and now that I look back at this, I can’t imagine how many of these people were also trying to set me up and frame me, because I didn’t know the state of surveillance back then or anything that I’ve learned about what’s going on since COVID. I lost touch with most people I knew back then also because my social media accounts got wiped and lost my contacts. I’m currently writing about this right now because I kind of bumped into someone I knew at the time, I haven’t seen in twenty years. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a happy reunion… “Hey, what’s up, I haven’t heard from you in a while. Are you okay?” It looks more like a social media account discord on me, based on a photography site because of the play on words. I mentioned this group of people from TCU I bumped into on Instagram a while ago and yeah so I like this woman I met from there and now this dude from forever ago is running around with that woman I was trying to talk to from that group in TCU… my response to that wasn’t very happy https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_0CVclaUn_6E55I3ebWpLcNh-67WeikX/