Jens' page was one of those "ain't the internet great" moments I had in the late 90s (or early oughts). There you just browse the web and suddenly you find out

Jens' page was one of those "ain't the internet great" moments I had in the late 90s (or early oughts). There you just browse the web and suddenly you find out that the keyboard player of this silly metal band you like doesn't just have his own web presence, but actually wrote it in a templating system of his own devise (written in Perl, as was tradition[1]). Including a diatribe about the sad state of HTML ("HTML 2.0 was pretty OK — couldn't they just have left well enough alone?"). After I found this, I altavistad quite a lot of musicians, but I don't think I ever got to repeat this epiphany. These days it's all instagram pages and twitter accounts anyway, and the biggest nerd jolt I get is when you find out that musician XYZ played D&D in the past. [1]: http://www.panix.com/~jens/parse-cgi-about.par http://www.panix.com/~jens/parse-cgi-about.par