PoemTASTIC!

Long ago (circa Y2K), this website started out as an email thread. I had finally gotten a job where I had a real-live email address and the internet and sent Austin an email. Somehow, this began a back-and-forth thread ending in a ginormous poem. And remember, this was back before people even said ginormous!

At some point, I got that fantastic SPAM like the rest of the world that provided me with the opportunity to enter a poetry contest. Long before realizing this was a ploy to mine legitimate email addresses for reselling, I thought that hilarity would certainly ensue after I wrote a sardonic poem to enter into this contest. Austin had the same feelings.

After some time passed, when I had enough free hours in my workday to hone my HTML skillz, I created a supper-crappy website with no less than 3 frames which would allow me to display the poetry that Austin and I came up with for the contest, as well as future poems we would deliver to each other by email. We were pretty funny, so naturally, so were our poetries.

This grew stale, and some time had passed, and I was terminated from my job, and I got a new job with lots of spare time, and a web-host that offered a pre-installed forum. I used this as the next iteration of PoemTASTIC!. This was the easiest way, with my limited knowledge of webmastering, for me to allow users to enter their own poems without me updating the files directly. This grew like wildfire until it spread to my baker's dozen or so friends. Thrived at a steady pace for a while, and the novelty wore off. I eventually shut the site down due to inactivity and disinterest.

THEN! AJ Baylis gave me $10 and I built this newest version. (built using someone else's free web-app)

Enjoy.