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Kids these days don’t know how easy they have it. Web sites like MySpace and FaceBook make it unbelievably simple for stupid teenagers to have a decent-looking personal web site. No knowledge of HTML necessary, no mastery of tables required. You just need to know how to spell your own name and have a free e-mail account and you’re good to go.

Back when I was a stupid teenager, when I was using the handle “Junia” on Mormonism discussion boards across the net, I managed to have a web site without the help of MySpace. The URL was apostlejunia.faithweb.com — and strangely enough, it looks like I had at least one reader, because somebody registered the site after I abandoned it and mentions there that they don’t know where I went.

About the time I got accepted to BYU, I unregistered the apostlejunia URL, re-designed the web site and moved it to byugirl.gq.nu. I maintained the site up until about the time I got engaged, when I completely forgot about it until today. Imagine my surprise to discover that IT’S STILL THERE. And in good condition for a site no one has touched in over five years. Still looks better than most of the MySpace pages out there too.

I’m sure plenty of the external links there are dead now, but I’ve decided to leave the site as it is. Some of the essays on that site I will probably even feature over here, though most of them are junk. And oh my gosh… poetry that I wrote in high school and early college *shudder*. If you ever needed a(nother) good excuse to laugh at me, don’t miss your chance.

The picture of me featured in this article is one of the finds on that web site which I had completely forgotten about. There’s some other funny things there if you’re bored, and you must be if you’re reading this blog, so have fun.