For a web page Hyperlands has been around for a while, it first when live some time in early 2001 (I think!). In that time it has had many different looks, had all sorts of different content and been hosted on 3 different servers!
This current version, doesn’t have quite as much content as previous versions, but this content will get added to regularly. I’m done with doing zero content sites or sites that stay unchanged for years! This time there will content and updates! Any new pages or updates to existing pages will get listed here. And I will be copying across the content that did get updated from the old site. It’s not all here yet (as of 31/10/2009), but I’m working on it.
Pages that just didn’t get updated on the last version of this site (pages like ‘digital anthill’ and ‘code and coding’) just don’t have a place here, sorry. I have however archived the whole of the pervious generation of this here. This is a snapshot of the site as it was 21/06/2009, the date of the last update.
The original Hyperlands came out of my indecisiveness. When I first through about making a web site, I could not decide what the site was going to be all about. I came up with a few ideas about various different things I was interested in at that time and started working on sites for them, thinking I would chose the best of them and use that one for the site.
However I couldn’t pick! I though what the heck I’ll do a site based around all of them. Now I needed a name that was generic enough to be used for all of the sites. Out of my memory came the name hyperland. Much has changed since then (see the history here), but this version has come back to this basic idea. This version is going to be the online home for my, slowly, growing collection of fiction and my photo galleries.
The name hyperlands is based on the name of a TV program from the early 90’s. The program was called hyperland and it was written and narrated by the late, grate Douglas Adams and stared Tom Baker. It was trying to describe some thing called interactive television. Today we know this medium by a different name, the Internet. It was actually a fairly actuate vision of what the internet is today and could be tomorrow. Tom played the part of an intelligent agent guiding the narrator around the concepts of this ‘new world’. Of course this may seem very old hat now days. Many of the visionaries that have contributed to today’s Internet where interviewed for the program. A quick youtube search shows, like just about everything else, hyperland is out there on the internet! Hyperland (note no s) is also home page of the father of hypertext Ted Nelson.
This version of hyperlands is hosted on JustHost’s servers using Wordpress with Page Lines Station Pro theme.