by David Wong

New feature article coming tomorrow. Tune in at around 8 am EST.

As many, many of you have noticed, we have finally turned out the lights on  the pointlesswasteoftime.com server, after nine years.

In the early spring of 1999, I wrote a retarded movie review on a message board. It was deleted and some guy emailed saying he wanted to read it, and asked if I stored the stuff I wrote somewhere.  I didn’t, but I went and opened a free hosting account on a site called Freeservers and put the review up there so it could be a repository of all the things that got deleted from message boards by moderators who didn’t like lots and lots of penis jokes in their posts.

The PointlessWasteofTime.com domain was purchased in November of that year, after I read an article saying they were extending the allowed length of domain names and I thought it would be funny to come up with the longest name possible.

That thing I started on the spur of the moment would come to dominate the next third of my life. I put in an average of 30-40 hours a week updating the site and moderating the forums, for basically no reward other than the compliments of many strangers.
But,  following the belief that even a dog turd will grow into a tree if you water it enough, PWoT finally bore fruit and I wound up with a career writing dick jokes and horror novels. No English degree, no previous writing job, never had a single word published in a paper publication.  I wasn’t invited to the party, so I kind of wandered in and by the time they realized I didn’t belong, it was too late.  I had brought those cocktail wieners everybody likes and they figured they’d let me stay until they were gone. But I brought a lot of  wieners. A lot. And they’re in sauce.
Anyway, new article tomorrow.

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