Psychic Dave

This is a post from my brother Dave's site-I love it! i hope you guys enjoy and ask dave some nice questions......................

There was once a time before broadband, ADSL, Cable and other superfast internet connections when you would wait up to two minutes to wait for a website - yes guys this was the era of the internet before the year 2000 - yeah half a decade has passed and we have all forgotten.

At that time blogs were virtually unheard of. People could create websites in their own home using microsoft frontpage or if you couldn't be arsed paying all this money, the microsoft frontpage express options included in Windows 1998!

You may all be surprised to know that I once created a webpage called Psychic Dave (http://www.psychicdave.8k.com/). Its origins were in a rather devious scheme to help one of my cousins to make sure one of her friends didn't go for a boy she liked. This friend ( I think she may have been called Sharon I don't quite remember) called me and I gave her psychic advice based on information my cousin gave me. It may have worked and so the website was set up. It became a cult hit among some of my sisters friends and for a while there was no activity whatsoever.

Then in the year 2001, the website was featured in a New Zealand computer magazine called Dodgy. For more than three months I would recieve between 12 and 150 emails a day asking for psychic advice. The strangest being questions about suicide, pregnancy and one a complex mining engineering enquiry - warning me that if I gave the wrong answer I risked $50 million worth of equipment.

I contend that this was the nature of the web in the past. A place where you could create a simple and effective website at the touch of a button using only frontpage and geocities (or freeservers). But we must embrace change and I promise to write in this blog as often as possible.