Fable of Content

oldindex
this is what hovercow.com looked like for most of its 2 years [broken]
anotheroldindex
this was another style that didn't last long [broken]
yetanotheroldindex
this was another style that didn't last long [broken]
aol museum
this section houses my aol disk collection and my AOLDance [working]
cult of the hovercow
My attempt to leech off of the popularity of hampsterdance ....it was somewhat successful I did get 250 unique hits a week [working]
hdrive
the remains of clockwork factory. still contains valuable cheat info [1500+links to check so maybe working]
lemmings dance
this is one of the new sections of hovercow that never really saw the light of day [working]

Once long ago there was a web site called the clockwork factory:
Well it all started back in August of 1996. I decided to put up a web page on a free server I had found called DragonFire.net . I really loved DragonFire.net they let me have cgi scripts, unlimited space but there was a catch, THEY WERE SLOWER THAN SH*T!!! I decided I would give Geocities a try after that. Geocities was a small startup back then and I was one of the first 100,000 or so to join. I proudly took over the honored number of 8940. Like all free things there were some catches. Geocities did not allow cgi, only had 2 meg space and did not allow sub-directories. I got to redesign my whole site to be in one directory. This was not too bad because I only had a couple hundred html files and only about 15 of them needed to be changed and renamed so I was set. I was blissful in my Geocities existence. I stored my Midi files and cgi scripts on Dragonfire and pretty much ran the rest of it off geocities. Then my luck started to wear out. Dragonfire stopped its free service and kicked me. Almost immediately I started to notice that geocities had developed the nasty habit of spawning a window when someone clicked on a tip. My site went through major updates and it got up to 700 files. Have you ever tried to pull up a directory listing of 700 files over a busy ftp server.? As you might imagine its not very fun. Soon my site began to deteriorate. After all if it takes me 3 minutes just to get a directory listing do you think I’m going to be doing a lot of minor revisions? Finally I had to do major updates over the summer of 97 to get it back up to speed. About the time I had perfected the new style Geocities started offering sub directories. Oh joy I get to redesign my site to use them AGAIN! As you might imagine updating my site had moved from a one week project to a 2 or 3 week project. In fact I’m almost sure that if you browse my site long enough on Geocities it still has errors in it. Around the time the Watermark appeared on geocities I started experimenting with different servers. Finally after helping a friend on Xoom I decided to give it a try. My current status as of 1-17-1999 are 1038 files in 27 separate sub-directories. -=here ends clockwork factory history section=- **this was written on 1-17-99
The birth of the hovercow
Around that time I changed the name of my site to hdrive (once again see yar section). Also around this time I ran acrosshampsterdance.com. Suddenly inspiration struck and I skipped a day of school to play with paintbrush and Microsoft gif animator. Eight hours later the hovercow had been born. Hovercows were really the work of Josh Cooley (see yar section) but I greatly expanded the concept. I quickly put my awe inspiring works up on freeservers.com. I had the honorable address of hovercow.8m.com . I was at peace and my karma flowed smoothly. Around this time I stumbled across some hosts that would host a .com for free. I jumped on this and purchased hovercow.com. Soon I expanded hovercow to include my aol trial disk collection and my aol dance. I also migrated my hdrive site into it as well. During the two years of operation I offered e-mail@hovercow.zzn.com and e-mail@hovercow.com. Theoretically speaking my zzn should still work. I had many site designs during these two years but I eventually settled on a yahoo like approach and it stuck for the last year. I really would have liked to continue with hovercow.com but my webhosting company (atfreeweb.com) stopped offering free web hosting. This really would have upset me but as it happens atfreeweb.com cut me off just 47 days before my domain was set to expire. I figured those two events happening so close to each other must be a sign and so I gave up. Anyway feel free to poke around as 85% of the links should still work.