Feb 29

What is GeekLAN?

The Website

That’s a hard question to answer. This was posed via the Contact form on my site.

I’ll try to approach this from my original idea down to what it has become (and may expand in to).

GeekLAN Then

GeekLAN was originally owned by a good friend of mine. It’s purpose was to create a website for a couple AZ-based geeks to fool around with outside of our numerous get-togethers for gaming. I took over ownership of the domain when registration lapsed (and strangely, no one snatched it up).

After taking the domain over, I had an intention to follow the original vision of the site, but expand it further into a ‘world-wide’ community (Yeah.. social website) for geeks. Specifically, those that wanted to get together and game or.. whatever. This idea was on the move for a good six months before I decided to give up on it. I realized it was to large of a project to tackle completely on my own, and good developers don’t come cheap (not withstanding the fact I couldn’t afford one).

GeekLAN Now

The site sat dormant for a good 3 months before I decided to start up a blog and talk about general geekery. Two things became readily apparent (and they remain true - but I’m working on it!):

- I’m not a good writer
- My grammar leaves much to be desired
- I don’t have many interesting things in mind to write about

The few posts I’ve made so far have been an absolute blast to put together and write. And I used to hate writing.

As you can see, that hasn’t stopped me. I’ve been taking the time to read posts at Write To Done, just to get ideas and a better feel for how I should approach new posts. It’s a lot to mull over and even more to take it. I’m taking notes from the site and using that appears to be appropriate in any given situation.

When I getter a better feel for things, I’ll decide wether or not GeekLAN is going to get buckled down to being a niche-specific blog or just a general ‘whatever goes’ type of blog.

GeekLAN Soon (maybe)

I’m still not completely sure where GeekLAN may go in the future. If the community grows enough, I may put some effort into bringing the community aspect of the original design into play. Most of the general code is written and ready to go. I just need a reason to continue fleshing the idea out and make it happen.

Why don’t you tell me how I’ve done so far? I’d love to hear from each and every one of you that happens to visit this little unknown hole in the wall.

That’s all for now.