...the man, and the website:

I've had a presence on the internet for several years now.  I started with basic HTML sites hosted on AngelFire, back when it used to be the premier free web hosting site, during my middle school days.  My first foray into the .com realm, circa 2000, became the first iteration of what is now Guymrodgers.com.  It was merely a means to get my name online, and had a relative dearth of content, as evidenced here.  The first site I actively publicized was entitled "Saturday Night Fighting", and was an attempt at organizing StarCraft® meetings between friends which took place, unsurprisingly, on Saturday nights.  These inane works of a true novice -- a 'script-kiddie', as hack HTML programmers are known as -- progressed to a more robust site, located at guymrodgers.is-a-geek.com, a vague assortment of thoughts, short stories penned by myself and friends, personal writings, and a few attempts at artistry.  This was also the formation of a proto-blog that enjoyed a relatively long lifespan, enduring for most of the site's existence.  Unfortunately, this project is now lost to the ether that is the place where all dead websites go, due to a hard drive that decided to spontaneously catch on fire.

Guymrodgers.com was purchased in 2005, during my junior year of high school, to serve as the platform to kill the down time during AP Computer Science.  It was the platform for a PHP bulletin board system, as well as a proxy server to get past the school content filters, as a way of 'sticking it to the Man'.  And to play verboten flash games.  Such rebellion was so blissfully naïve.  This first, true iteration of the domain was sadly lost to a melted circuitboard and a work ethic too lazy to attempt to recover the contents of my server's hard drive.  I'm starting to notice a pattern between lost websites and fire.

In the interim time between Guymrodgers.com v.2 and v.3, argochem.com was born.  Vestiges of the old site can still be found on the newest version, and all things considered, I'm pretty happy with my first attempt at building a Flash-based website.

Now Guymrodgers.com v.3 is born.  And only time will tell what monstrosity it will grow into...  :)