This little site i like to call THE Experience morphed out of a page originally contained on The Official TERRY's KID Homepage back in 1999 called In My Humble Opinion. Here i would rant and rave about whatever - usually music stuff. I started adding other little sections onto this page & eventually just started a whole new site altogether, so as to not make the TERRY's KID site look like my personal site. I had originally started The Official TERRY's KID Homepage for the band i was in, aptly named TERRY's KID, as a lark. It was basically just a place where we could put up funny pictures of the band, have a web address to send out with demos & keep both of our loyal fans up to date on when & where we were playing.

The Official TERRY's KID Homepage originally started out on MSN's free homepage thing-a-ma-bob, which turned into TalkCity (which, of course, would eventually screw TK over). At the time i started TOTKH, i had absolutely no knowledge of HTML whatsoever. In the beginning, all the pages were the generic templates set up by MSN. It was from viewing those source codes, copying & pasting & trial & error (& a tiny bit of research) that a majority of my knowledge of HTML came from. What i'm basically saying here is that i know dick about making webpages - which is why most of the pages here are shabby looking, at best.

So anyway, when i started my own personal site, which i called The C--- B----- Experience, i moved it to Yahoo!'s GeoCities. I did this for two reasons: 1) i hated the pop-up windows on MSN & 2) i liked the GeoCities editor more. I've never paid for a hosting service to get a shorter URL for another two reasons: 1) i'm poor & 2) in the past year i've averaged about five hits a day, so it's really not worth it. I do, however, have these two addresses that i think are kinda funny: drink.to/TKid & drink.to/Bogs.

The C--- B----- Experience was (& is) a place for me to put my random thoughts, funny musings &, for the most part, inside jokes of my friends (which make up about 70% of my traffic, i guess) & i. Late in 2000 i also started The Jethro Tull Experience, a site dedicated to my 2nd favorite band. Nothing too exciting there & something i have very rarely updated since i got it all set up. Now, with three different sites, i had to give the whole collection a name, so i dubbed it The cpb Network.

In 2002 i changed the name of The C--- B----- Experience to, simply, THE Experience - basically just because i really didn't like having my name across the top of the front page. In the middle of 2002 i built Waxing Lyrical*. I started this because i love music & i love lyrics.

2002 also saw the birth of Shane's Dynamic Contingencies. After years of negotiations, THE Experience finally convinced one Shane Patrick McGee to come on board. In September Shane was installed as THE Experience's overseas correspondent.

And finally, (again) in 2002, The Corner Of Miami Street & Gilmore became the final (for now) piece of the The cpb Network puzzle. This is a page for what i guess would be described as my "more serious" writings. Just something i needed to get out.

That is a look at THE Experience to date. It's been pretty slow going so far, but be patient. I'm learning along with you...


-cpb, 11/4/02