About
Dimfuture.net has, since about 1996, been my place to screw around on the internet. I want to make all sorts of snooty claims to fame — like the fact that I was writing personal anecdotes on the Web before it became popular when I undertook the journal project 99 Days; that I started “blogging” before that became popular (with the long-defunct Troll in 1999), and also that I invented the rolling pin. No one would believe me if I said these things, and they’d probably be right not to. Sure, I may have been doing a lot of things before they were cool, but did anybody care? No.
Dimfuture.net has gone through all kinds of changes in the past few years, from featuring a webzine (The Noise) and a webcomic (Thumbdog), to languishing and losing every bit of the popularity it once earned when there were fewer than five billion people on the Internet. Still, it’s always been here, changing shape, gaining content, losing content, getting ugly, getting a half-baked facelift. It may not be the best site for much of anything on the Internet, but it is mine, and I’m proud of the scruffy old thing.
The latest incarnation of dimfuture.net is a weblog of geeky things: movies, sci-fi, action figures, cryptozoology, and various other nerdy pursuits. I’ve managed to attract a few more authors and a fairly loyal readership, and hope to keep this site going for many years to come. Dimfuture.net won’t end up being the best at any of the things it’s doing now, either. But goddamned if it won’t just keep chugging along anyway. Dimfuture.net: The Little Site That Could.
-Daniel Swensen, May 2007