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Penmachine.com is officially three years old today. Three years and one night ago, the name penmachine came to me in a half-dream as I fell asleep, after I had been thinking about dozens of domain names over a few months. (My previous favourite, kneebone.com, was by then taken.)
This Web site itself is twice that age, though, since I first started learning HTML in March 1997. Some of the first things I wrote back then, when it lived as a free site at angelfire.com, are still here in some form. That's how the site got so big -- sadly, as in my basement, I almost never throw anything away.
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