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www.paabo.ca
VANITY CARD (will change from time to time) My name is Andres Pääbo, and I took an interest in the www already back in around 1996 when it was young. I procured a webspace for my website, taught myself html coding and then javascript, but it was more than any scholarly or business website - it was a creative outlet. Even though I used my own pursuit of art, or pursuit of various scholarly avenues, as the context of my creativity, I created one website after another, each time trying to outdo the other. With javascript I created interesting interractive webpages. There is one, made in 1998 that is still great. I call it 'Scroll Machine'. Basically there are some funky buttons that control the scrolling down of a large page. The subject of the scrolling could be anything - credits, resume, etc. It looks like a modern tablet 'app' and could be adapted for the new tablets still today. The new trend, of creating apps, which are like little programs that offer more interractivity than a regular 'web page' (which is like a printed page) is thus something I was already doing, let's see, 14 years ago. (People say I am always at least a decade ahead of my time) But I created other ones, like a sideways scrolling wall with paintings, where the program selected the paintings at random. Another one showed paintings floating in from the side. And so on and on - I was creating these inventions from html, css, and javascript. And so, I confess, my website is not a "normal" website. It is a canvas for a new kind of creative expressiveness. I did however upload some more normal pages. When I put my part time research into ancient boat peoples onto my website - this time exploring publishing onto the internet, years before it became fashionable - I received a great deal of traffic to it, as I was pursuing an uncommon topic - prehistoric expansions of arctic peoples by boat. I put other stuff on there from time to time. It could be my own personal 'facebook' or 'blog'. But content is not as important as how it is presented. But time prevents me from creatively expressing myself in the web design side. Still, my current creation soon to be completed is designed with tablets in mind. It is intended to work pleasanlty on both large size monitors as tablets. Because this website is not based on a practical purpose like business or academics, but is a canvas for creative expression, you will not find it very organized or consistent in terms of content. Most people access my pages by other routes than this front page, such as via google or links elsewhere. That is why I have not had a proper entry page with menu and everything for a while. But I will TRY to be more organized content-wise and make this first page work better for those arriving at this page to start with. -April 2012 |