Suboptimist

The Central Node re: It’s fate.

When I sit down and think about it, I am amazed at how long The Central Node has been around. Six and a half years, by my count, which in internet terms is really frickin long.

The Node was founded in 2002 around the same time MySpace was showing up and blogs were becoming a common site on the internet. A few of my high school friends (primarily Sam, Dan, Meg, Noah) decided to start an Internet community to break away from the place they were presently being hosted. Why they did it isn’t really relevant.
They established a forum where several angsty high school kids could come and discuss their thoughts with the few of our classmates who read it. I joined in 2003.

As time went on, a few members left, and a few others joined. At one point we had members in three US states and two countries. All of this is great, but we’ve also gotten so far away from what The Central Node was intended for and what the name The Central Node implies. The Central Node implies a collaborative online project. We’ve tried to reinvigorate that several times over the years, but I think we have come to the realization that our interests our two broad and incompatible for a collaborative blog. Therefore, we have decided to retire the project.

The Central Node was fun to brag about, but it’s time to move on. We’re going to keep the web space, but we’ll likely all be registering new domains. This leads me to my final question. What am I going to call my new site, and domain should I aim for?