Grab some popcorn and put up your feet, because spacebrick.net has come a very long way from the beginning.
The very first version used 3 tags: headers, images, and links. I was going along with the boom in Lego websites that occurred in the early 2000's- I'd been building with Legos since I was 6 years old, and at the time I made the site I was enchanted with the idea of fame and fortune through Legos. Before I bought the domain I upgraded the site to a version which way overused frames in the html, and had god-awful blue on grey text.
As I continued to work on the rest of the site, I redid the homepage again, this time simply by copying html and css from another website, but for some unfathomable reason, I kept the blue on grey text. The ripped website has since disappeared from the internet, to my dismay.
The domain spacebrick.net itself has a moderately interesting story- when I decided to claim a domain, I spent hours thinking up names. I wanted the site to pose as an aerospace company manufacuring various cool military spaceships (built of Legos, of course =). There were other such Lego websites, such as "Pallas Spaceworks", "Foundry DX", and, my favorite, "The Astro Lift Company". I remember distinctly that it was a napkin idea- I had a few names written down on a napkin, and I finally went with Spacebrick, Incorporated.
My domain selected, I went to reserve spacebrick.com, and saw that it had been reserved mere days earlier by a company producing, perhaps ironically, a product intended to compete with Legos. I must say the site was an offense to me, because although the "spacebrick" was this nifty polyhedral plastic building block, the website was AWFUL. Note to all aspiring web designers: do not use flashing purple and green headers on a yellow background. Anyway, the result of all this was my purchase of the domain spacebrick.net.
It's a unique and somewhat catchy domain, and there really isn't much reason to change it, so there you have it: spacebrick.net.
So how did it get from there to here? Well, the site stayed up for about a year and a half in that state while I worked on other projects, posting in the news column on average once a month. Eventually I learned enough about webdesign to see that the site needed to be rebuilt from the ground up, so I began work on Spacebrick 2.0. I worked on that so unbearably slowly that months after I had announced it as "coming soon" I still had little more than a homepage. At that time I began work on Bridge CE, but naively thought I could finish the entire site, including my intended new "Halo", "Blog", and "Portfolio" secions by Bungie Day '06 (July 7th). So I put up one of my favorite ever "Under Construction" pages: an image of a dead player on Beaver Creek in Halo multiplayer, with a message saying "Spacebrick.net has been killed by the guardians" with a working respawn timer counting down the seconds to 7:07 am Bungie Day. That day came and I still had little more than that main page, so I put up the site like that and promised to continue to work on it. Eventually it was February '07 and I decided before I could do anything I had to change what I percieved as the awful look of the site, so I changed it again to spacebrick 3.0. As I was changing this, I started thinking about what people want from a website- stuff for me, or stuff for them. Obviously the answer is the latter, so spacebrick.net gradually became more and more complicated and now here we are, with me promising new features coming soon... but with people actually visiting the site, I have incentive now, and I must say as it it it's MUCH more fun to work on than it was before.
So what you see here is the 4th public version of spacebrick.net, but it's been through at least a dozen iterations.
Well to paraphrase a certain mathematician, that was probably a huge waste of your and what is infinitely worse, my time: you just read the life story of a website. Go upload stuff now.
