The W3C came up with a technology at the height of this issue called PICS, short for the Platform for Internet Content Selection. In some ways, that technology saved the Internet. If you read Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web
by Tim Berners-Lee, you will read how there was legislation in progress to restrict the Web. PICS revolved around content providers being able to rate their own content, rating criteria from third parties, and rating decisions by end users. It was a system based on trust that didn’t impose anything on anybody.

As the technologies used to communicate metadata evolved, so did rating bureaus communicating their labels. Originally the Recreational Software Advisory Council for Internet used a system based on PICS. As RSACi morphed into the Internet Content Rating Association, the labeling became more detailed and granular. As ICRA has now morphed into the Family Online Safety Institute, they have moved their labeling to leverage RDF. I learned this when a 404 report for my site was for labels.rdf. I have now created that latest version of the labels for my site and link to it from my WordPress site.

My site is rated as having no nudity, mild language, and user generated content amongs other things. Check for yourself with the label checking tool.

Personal website on December 10, 2003

In the earliest version of my site I could find, I found this version from shortly after starting college. This is a page that was generated by the Blog software I played with for a while. I think I eventually abandoned Blog because it generated flat files that revealed the technology being used. I wanted to heed the guidelines regarding “Cool URIs Don’t Change“.

Website from April 21, 2004

Apparently for a while, I didn’t bother having much of a site. It was just a page with my e-mail address.

Website from June 8, 2004

This was a nicer version of the site. I actually have content and the start of the style. I have a purplish/blue background hinting at the blue theme I would eventually have. I believe this design was shortly after reading Jakob Nielson’s Designing Web Usability. I had a breadcrumb style navigation that appeared on the top and bottom of the site. This remained the overall design for several years.

Website from October 30, 2007

In early 2007, I went through a personal branding phase and came up with my prior website design. This was also when I migrated my site from my school website to my personal gurganus.name domain. The page content is simpler without the navigational overhead since I had been manually modifying the breadcrumb structure, and that became error prone and burdonsome.

Website Today

Now, I’ve migrated to WordPress so some of the overhead of maintaining navigational structures isn’t there. I’m still working on theming my WordPress installation though.

The ‘G’ spot in the usual sense is the Gräfenberg Spot on a woman. It is an area associated with erotic stimulation. While my ‘G’ Spot is not the most erotic, I do hope it to be a place of stimulation for others, usually of the intellectual sort. Having the “Gurganus” last name and developing a logo around the letter ‘G’ also makes the name ‘G’ spot fitting.

Personal Logo