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These web pages were developed out of boredom and wanting to revive skills that were once used for work but haven't been used in some years.

Once there was s time when anybody subscribing to an internet service provider were allocated some sort of generally static webpage space to use. I say static because few ISPs' ever really provided scripting capability. These days you can pay for hosted webspace or you can go it alone and host your own website as this website is. The whole cost of the hardware is less than a smoker can spend in a week for cigarettes.

Your own web pages were a useful place to host your own clipart or images used for say, a forum avatar image. Certainly it was how I used to host an avatar/image for the now long gone Fenderpick Guitar forum. A number of my interests are reflected apon through this website be it Amateur Radio, Guitar, Programming or Photography that may come. I could add more topics as it I find I have to keep my mind occupied in some way and sometimes too much of one thing makes that subject less enjoyable.

While the Fenderpick forums were once a place that was a great place to be and to meet like minded souls, where we even used to arrange collaborations where guitar players around the world all contributed to a music track, allocated as they were a few bars each, to play on against a backing track. Those days have, it seems, been largely supplanted by the increase in other 'so called' social media outlets like Facebook and Youtube (and there are others that are even worse). Sadly many such places seem to be anything but 'Social' so whilst it may seem that there are opportunities to engage with others, it seems to the likes of me that these are not places that I feel comfortable to be. The fact that these huge providers of these platforms do not provide practical or tangible help to users, leaving things like that to a mix of users who quite often mislead as much as they may think they help makes using the platforms a nightmare.

The fact that such large platforms and there mega-rich corporate owners do what they can to distort life by their reluctance to manage vile or inappropriate content is making the world to my mind a much more sinister and dark place. This is I believe, far from what Tim Berners-Lee the so named inventor of the World Wide Web would have hoped for I am sure. Thankfully there are others that do care and strive to help without the greed that seems to have taken hold of so much of the World Wide Web.

So these webpages are just a place where I can do things that help me and friends that I know and where we can share in our interests. It may grow, it may not.