Latest Update: 11/04/2022 - Listen To The Radio
In Which I Make Yet Another Project More
Welcome to EMN Online.
This website serves primarily as a place for me (Erin, hi) to mess around. That's it. Around the start of the 2020 pandemic, I found a really cool tutorial on how to set up your own custom TV station. I was already interested in messing with VCRs and CRT TVs, so it felt like a fun extra thing to do. From then on, it became a source of comfort for me, a strange little art project that has ballooned to four (more if you count program lineups individually) in-home TV channels, a general appreciation for analogue media and VHS releases, and a rotating lineup of shows, movies, and ads. It's an aesthetic project, a mechanical project, and now a web project, and I just wanted to have a place to put all my disconnected thoughts and rambles about it.
Along the way I thought it'd be fun to have a place to slam down some articles as well. I've always been inspired by places like i-Mockery, and hey, if nothing else this is my public-private little diary area. There's no real theme going here outside of the EMN database, so whenever I think of something fun to write about, I'll do that.
Along the way I realized I could use my web space to archive a few classic sites that meant something to me or to others. It started with the Pied Piper translation and ballooned a little. I don't pretend to be some kind of master archivist, and to be honest I don't see it becoming a big part of why I built this website, but hopefully they'll be a fun little peek into earlier internet history.
I want to extend some serious thank-yous to chaoslace, who created the original Zarathustra website that I lifted most of the design elements and ideas from when putting this place together, and to Marina Kittaka, creator of the amazing Zonelets, a blogging template that taught me all about arrays. You're the skeleton of this place.
All in all I want to thank you for stopping in, however you may have found this place. Hopefully you can enjoy my little playground as much as I do.
Love, Erin.