Five
Amazingly enough, The Allurium has now been online for five years. Tempus fugit, baby.
I registered the domain name and uploaded the first html files to Dreamhost in January of 2001. I wasn’t exactly sure of what I was going to do with The Allurium — just that I wanted to have a space online that was fully mine. It has mutated quite a bit, over time.
This is what the site looked like when it was first unveiled:
(You can use the Wayback Machine to check it out if you’d like.)
I had other wesites before that. Water (on GEnie – in 1994, I believe) and Indigo (first on CompuServe and then on Concentric.net). Indigo held my initial attempts at an online journal (there were no such things as “blogs”, then). The journal was called, “I Have Nothing to Say” and later grew into, “Tangerine: A Book of Hours”.
At this point, however, The Allurium has become my “home on the web”. I have a couple of other sites sprinkled about (“Slant” on LiveJournal, my Flickr photo site, and a sorely neglected “Locus Solus” on MySpace [cancelled: 01/13/06 - always felt I was too old for that place]) but most of me is here. 
I still can’t believe it’s been here for five years, though.
Time definitely does flutter by…
January 6th, 2006 at 6:33 AM
Wow. Five years. I remember waiting with anticipation for The Allurium’s arrival, and all the pleasure I had in wandering through Indigo/Tangerine when I first discovered it. It’s been a wonderful few years, John. :>
January 6th, 2006 at 11:28 AM
Thanks Lonita. It’s amazing how fast five years can flow by. It seems like a long time when you say it; remembering it, however, is like fast-forwarding through a photo album…
I’m glad you still like it (and the earlier sites) and hope you’ll continue to visit!