History

I suppose you could say this is the eight-year-old version of my first website on Geocities. In 1996, I got my first webpage in one of Geocities' "villages" (Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard, Paris, etc). As I was fairly young at the time, I didn't have a proper website title. It simply consisted of my name in brightly colored letters at the top, a horrid MIDI playing in the background, random pictures scattered about and an ornately decorated background. What followed was a collection of over a dozen websites, each a fansite for something I loved at the moment (Romeo and Juliet, My So-Called Life, Scream, etc). Once Geocities deleted my inactive sites, I stopped worrying about making anything but fansites for a fandom I was in. At one point, it was a boyband (I was barely out of adolescence, don't look at me like that).

In 2000, I started a new site, Complicated: The Good Charlotte Variety Hour. I updated the site almost every month for almost four years before I finally gave up on the entire band and left the site up for nostalgia's sake. Around the time I created the site, I began a personal site on envy.nu, titled Flooz. Don't ask me about the title, because, to this day, I still have no idea. My first layout consisted of an eighties picture of Patrick Dempsey and various random information. At the time, I was a very obnoxious little web designer (I was still in high school, which should explain it). Not many people on the web liked me. During 2001, while I had another layout consisting of a pictures from my favorite local band, envy.nu shut down and I lost my site.

I gave up on making a personal site for awhile. I was too busy trying to work on Complicated.... But, towards the end of 2002, I began contemplating a new site. After Glenn Quinn died, I decided to make a new site and create a tribute layout. While talking to one of my friends on the way home that day, we had decided that the best name for a band would be "worst ex," from the Taking Back Sunday song "Bike Scene:"

I'll leave the lights down low
so she knows I mean business
And maybe we could talk this over
Cause I could be your best bet
Let alone your worst ex
And let alone your worst...

I went back to Geocities and created the first version of worst ex, using a wonderful picture of Glenn Quinn as a tribute.

I started learning more about iframes, tables and the wonders of DIV and the result was four layouts of worst ex, only three making it to the final stages. Then, finally, I found out about Active Web Hosting and their $10 a month hosting. So, on April 24, 2004, I registered the domain name corset strings [dot] net and started my site three days later, resulting in the most recent version of worst ex/flooz.

The name of the domain came from a picture of Rasputina here. I adore corsets and vintage, so the most appropriate name seemed to be something to do with corsets. Hence, Corset Strings.