A Brief Site History

This is a personal web site belonging to Kelson Vibber. Parts of it date back to 1995, when I started building a "home page" on UCI's student servers and a Les Misérables fan page on AOL's user web space. I consolidated everything into a single site at Hyperborea.org in 2000.

I started using KVibber.com as a more IndieWeb-style profile in 2022. As of April 2026, I've been moving sections over to the domain that's my name, not the domain I picked 25 years ago based on a movie 25 years older than that.

Moving and Updates

Ideally, cool URLs don't change. Practically? I've pulled in a lot of posts that I originally made somewhere else online. Mailing lists, social media, forum posts, other blogging platforms, and so on. And I've moved some from one part of this site to another. Moving troubleshooting articles from the blog to the Tech Tips section, for instance. I do try to add redirects when I have access to the original location, to keep old links working.

Dates: If it's just been moved (even from another site), I'll usually keep the original date. IMO the date on a post should reflect when it was written and published, not just when it was put in its current location. For substantial changes I'll note that it's been updated. That's why if you look carefully you'll sometimes see backdated posts showing up in the blog. (I tag these as imported posts, and usually add another tag to indicate where I'd posted it previously.)

That said, in the older parts of the site I used to change the date every time the code changed, which I eventually realized was pointless: No one cares when I added something to the sidebar or changed the background, they care whether the actual page content is new.

Timeline of Major Additions/Removals

1995: Start with Les Mis lyrics fan site, MIDI collectioni
1996: Add Creative writing, Flash fan site, Babylon 5 fan site
1997: Add Photos.
2000: Move to Hyperborea.org. Add humor collection. Remove Les Mis lyrics
2002: Add main blog.
2005: Launch Alternative Browser Alliance (side project)
2008: Launch Speed Force blog (side project)
2013: Add Re-Reading Les Mis blog.
2016: Create KVibber.com as a forwarding page.
2021: Launch Gemini capsule
2022: Add Tech tips, reviews. Clean up. Add IndieWeb profile at KVibber.com.
2026: Moving sections from Hyperborea to KVibber.com Still in progress.