Year 2 (September 23, 2001 - Present)

It was a year ago. I was working for a PR/Advertising firm on the tail of the Dot Comet a few weeks before it hit the atmosphere of economic reality and dissolved in a glorious show of light and noise. It was the era when foreign affairs were foreign, money was easy, and life was too good to be true.

It was a year ago. Anaxified.com was born and this very page stated its intent: a forum for my staff and I to publicly masturbate. The site had no purpose but to make those involved feel good. It was a vehicle for me to learn PHP and MySQL, and eventually change jobs making more money. This wasn't supposed to be a serious medium for expression or communication. Just a toy.

It was a year ago. Oh my, how much change can be wrought by one, measly year?

hellsbane lost his girl to the system. TrixyDeelite is incarcerated. SinCollector collected more sins. The CPD died. Fight Club was the movie to quote (“You are not your fucking khakis”) and Daler Mehndi inspired all us white boys to dance. stephen steved in the steviest way stevable. Moronic was a moron. ”Whaaaaaaaasssssup?!?!” h00kupz h00ked up. dirtybastahd and LatexMantus stopped posting pr0n at my misguided request. Seabass was a dumbass. The Dot Com Era officially ended and the constipated economy decided to take a massive shit. pendarric posted a couple of times. Counter Strike spread through the virtual country-side like napal-induced wildfire Johnykat was wed to eboda1 (or as we know her, Tami). denied entertained and educated through his own life lessons of love, lust and loss. kickthemonkey kicked monkeys and gave us “The Moral of the Story”. StileProject? What’s StileProject? ihatepeterh didn’t do jack. LushLife helped a lone anaxified.com founder through a nervous breakdown by being able to relate to his own personal experiences in a way he’s never known anyone else capable of doing. unholy6 raised hell and disappeared and is missed. Flashman flashed his man. Formaldehyde was retarded. steph got to see Digweed live, and the little twerp gets to see him live again in a bit. LatexMantus retired as Diablo II ate his soul. anaxified.com redesigned itself. Mctwist went to UNT (near most of the original staffers) over the summer. We never heard from him. ceausescu added something back into anaxified that had been missing for a while: off-beat humor. ukneeq did the unthinkable: he broke up with his girlfriend. zYphrist presented his “Shrapnul” posts and gave perspective where sometimes there was none. lexi ran life’s gamut and ended up in her own place. iamhappyblue.com redesigned itself. doghouse finally posted the pic of Robin, and hasn’t really posted since. Asthmatik provided us some fun on the subject of competing ‘tardos and arguing on the ‘Net. anaxis moved in with his girlfriend. The World Trade Center evaporated as the United States evolved. And yet, we’re still here.

Who knows? Give us another year and maybe we'll fall by the wayside like the others. Or maybe we're not through jerkin' off yet.

anaxis

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Year 1 (September 24, 2000 - September 23, 2001)

Masturbation serves no purpose but to make the masturbator feel good. You spend 2-10 minutes (longer for girls) violently moving your arm/hand/fingers attempting to build yourself up to a sexual climax at which point all your physical effort culminates into a wad of sticky shit ("puddle of goo" for women) on the bed/bathroom floor/cat/dog. Keeping that in mind, I'll now explain what this site is about.

anaxified.com was the result of me masturbating online. I spent 2-10 minutes violently coding PHP, MySQL, and HTML to build myself up to an egotistical climax, at which point all my mental effort culminated into a virtual wad of written shit on the 'net. It served no purpose except to make me feel good.

Since that time I have invited friends, people from chatrooms, and complete strangers to post articles on this page. It still serves no purpose, so I guess instead of using masturbation as a euphemism for this page, I need to use the ever popualr "circle jerk".

I can't tell you what drives the other contributors to post on this page (besides my constant nagging at them to do so), but I'll try to explain why I do what I do. I've been fascinated with the 'net since I discovered the WWW when I was a sophomore in high school. Today I design web sites for a living, and in doing so, I have become addicted to the 'net.

I'm not addicted to porn sites, or warez sites. I don't give a shit about e-commerce or B2B sites. I despise the mundane and fear the stupidity that runs rampant on the 'net. What I am addicted to is the promise. The promise of fame (500,000+ hits a day), of fortune (evil banner ad's, pyramid schemes, alladvantage.com), and flattery (fan e-mail). But most of all I'm addicted to the promise of an over-inflated ego that would result from accomplishing any one of the aforementioned promises.

Do I think I'm any different from steakandcheese.com, stileproject.com, iamhappyblue.com, vulgus filter, badassmofo, or any of the other thousands of e/n sites out there? To be honest, I don't know... and I really don't care. Like I said, I'm just out here on the 'net jerkin' off for myself.

anaxis

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