History of this web server

This page was created early in 1993, when Mosaic was still in its prerelease (alpha/beta stages) and way before Netscape came around. At that time, the entire listing of all web servers in the world were listed at NSCA's who's who. I was running the server out of a nist.gov address (which led to some interesting situations, just as I got ram.org -- as you can see by the domain name, it's a rare and unique one). My server was definitely in the top 1000, and perhaps in the top 100.

I maintain only certain sections of my pages due to my responsibilities to understand life. The Primus web page, arguably one of the first music fan band pages, won't be maintained for example. There are some areas that routinely update (including movie ratings and TV show episode commentary) and I add stuff to the ramblings portion once in a while. But that's mostly it.

These web pages and web servers can claim many first. The first web logs (blogs), the first dynamic CGI scripts, and one of the first to come into existence since Tim Berniers-Lee came up with the concept of the Web, and so on.

These days, we explore latest ground breaking technologies on the Web (HTTP and HTML we not designed for this purpose, so I consider these a horrible kludge) via the Bioverse framework, which enables exploring the relationships among the molecular, genomic, proteomic, systems, and organismal worlds. Our goal there is to perform sophisticated analyses and predictions based on genomic sequence data to annotate and understand the interaction of sequence, structure, and function, both at the single molecule as well as at the systems levels.