d3ft.com

In November of 2008, I came up with what I think was a rather brilliant URL. That’s where you go to find your good internet, for those of you who don’t know what that means. The thing you type into the location bar for you internet browser, that’s what it is. That is an URL.

After trying to figure out what to do with that URL, for over a year, I finally purchased the URL. It is a fine, fine internet domain. It is a top-level domain name, meaning that it ends in something like .com or .net. But this one does not end in .com, or .net, or even .org.

It ends in something that you can only get in the US of A. A domain name that you can only get if you live in, or the site is mostly about, things in the United States of America. Fortunately enough, I fit some or all of that criteria, and now I can both register, and own the domain.

The most difficult part after getting the domain was making the stuff I wanted to work on the domain work. I did that by outright copying and embellishing what smart people who do this sort of thing for a living do. I took there good stuff, added other good stuff, put in some special sauce, and then seasoned to taste.

But mostly there was the stealing.

Stealing-well, taking the stuff people say you can have for free and use it without paying, which I guess isn’t technically stealing-is the point of the thing I made. Copying, maybe. Copying things. And showing them off to other people. All pretty much legal, as far as I can tell.

I made something. Here it is.