A fond farewell to background music...

Back in 1997 when I first decided to stake out my claim on Geocities (hey, it was free! I needed it! ;-), the world was a different place: nearly all Web pages were terribly boring, or terribly tacky. I have to reluctantly admit that for my personal pages I erred on the side of tackiness: animated gifs, shockwave files and background sounds merrily caroused about my sites - I believe there was even a marquee or two...

When I redid Alrak's Parallel Universe earlier this year, I jettisoned the animated gifs on the intro page (well, they went to their own parallel universe, the indexb.html page...). With a pang of reluctance, I've come to the conclusion that background sounds are, well, scary. So, I'll be removing the Star Trek: First Contact background sound from Alrak's Blog.

Never fear, though: I'm learning Flash! ;-)

(And I've still got colored scrollbars :-)