WEBSTER BYTE
Webmaster / modem alien
WEBSTER BYTE
Neon green, phone-cord antennae, zero chill. Screeches a full 56k handshake whenever anything good happens, which is always.
THE INTERWEBS $INTERWEBS
Please wait while The Interwebs loads...
The whole dial-up internet, crammed into one coin. GeoCities glitter, blinking Under Construction signs, a hit counter that never stops climbing, and a modem alien screeching his 56k handshake at every new arrival. Pull up a chair, the page is still loading. It always is. :-)
WEBSTER'S ROOM NEW!
Name: Webster Byte
From: the far end of a phone cord
Homepage: you're on it
HI!!! o/ I'm Webster Byte, webmaster of this whole entire corner of cyberspace. I live inside the modem. When something EXCITING happens I can't help it: BZZZT-KSSHHH-KRRRRRR-DING!
That's the 56k handshake. It means two machines just said hello. It means YOU just arrived. Every new surfer gets one, no exceptions, no mute button (ok there's a mute button, I'm not a monster).
Stuff I'm into: animated GIFs, the color #FF00FF, webrings, tiled backgrounds, and the sound a hard drive makes when it's thinking really hard.
~ signed, Webster :-) | webmaster since the first ring
THE CAST
Point your mouse at a card. Go on. IT FLIPS! (tap it on a tiny screen)
HIT COUNTER HAL
Counts things / panics
HIT COUNTER HAL
A seven-segment counter on stick legs. Ticks up obsessively. Has no plan whatsoever for what happens after 999999. Please do not bring it up.
BARRY THE BARRICADE
Site foreman / forever
BARRY THE BARRICADE
Hazard stripes, hard hat, shovel. Has been digging the same hole since the page went up. Insists, loudly, that it's ALWAYS under construction.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Barry here. This page is under construction. It was under construction yesterday. It'll be under construction tomorrow. That's not a bug, pal, that's the whole homepage philosophy. A finished website is a dead website.
Hard hats past this point. Mind the stripes. Do not feed Hal.
~ Barry, site foreman, shovel in hand
THE HANDSHAKE
Sound Recorder - handshake.wav
Two modems meeting for the first time. Dial tone, the number, the screech, the hiss, the DING. Made live by your computer, no file, no download. Turn it down a little first.