SO WHAT?
It's a valid question.
Why should you care if these pages exist? Or why do I bother? Or what
difference does it make?
Maybe you shouldn't. Maybe I shouldn't. Probably not much.
Essentially, it boils down to this. Years ago, in high school and into my undergraduate studies, I had a random personal web site that I called Matt's Place. I tried to make it different from all the other random personal home pages that were strewn across the internet by putting something on it that was more relevant than a weird biography, a scattering of pictures, a list of likes and dislikes, and a collection of links which probably don't actually go anywhere because these pages never get updated in a thousand years and the web is constantly chucking old pages in favor of things that are, though each time we say it's not possible, more useless than the page before.
I accomplished this, or rather I attempted to accomplish this, by offering a section that was nothing but personal essays, random ramblings on life, the universe, and everything, and that sort of thing. To this day, I am almost certain that 99.999% of the known universe never ever bothered to visit my page, and of those than did, I'd guess that 90% of those that did visit never read anything. But there were a few. And a few of them have mentioned it to me over the years. And now, though I think I've lost all my old essays (for which I am equally distraught and thankful at the same time), I'm trying a repeat performance. It's been at least five years since I've written anything like that anymore, but one popped up again this morning. I enjoyed writing it, so maybe we'll keep going.
Maybe we won't, too. I've got enough reasons to never bother with the WWW at home ever again, so we'll see what happens, where it goes. Your guess is as good as mine.
Anyway, if you feel like it, go read something.
