These sorts of websites have pretty much gone to the wayside these days -- back in the old days, servers were shared by a couple people because nobody could really afford to run one all by themselves. Today, anyone can put up a website and make it act like they're the only website there.Once in a while, like the Wisconsin users I noted a couple weeks ago, I randomly run across lists of people sharing a server. Today's list comes all the way from Xerox PARC, in Palo Alto CA. 'Sandbox' is the name of the server, and some very smart people share it's server space for their personal sites. Xerox PARC, like MIT's Media Lab, is a computery place that I worship: Everything that comes out of the PARC is future-oriented, not simply 'make now work'. It's always nice to remember, thanks to Sandbox.xerox.com, that even brainy people have quaint little personal websites out there. Some even use ugly animated GIFs, and others link to the paradigm-changing work they've done. Some even do both.
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