Michael’s Blog

Everyone likes a good story right? I sure do.. While on SocialSpark I found a great little site called The Space Turtle.

It’s a fun little site with an interesting but simple layout with quite a lot to offer. The site and it’s stories remind me of The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy for some strange reason…

Most of the stuff is make believe, I mean, I don’t remember any headlines reading Easter Bunny Rabbit Found Raising Army…

Here is a small piece that explains how what happens when you go to his site!

When you type in the web address for this site, do you ever what happens after you press ‘enter’ and the site loads? This is how it happens:

First, a tiny electronic postman goes from your browser, taking the site name with him on a little pad. He takes an express train to a place that holds the nameservers. The nameservers are tall, monolithic black rectangular rocks that were carved from ancient stones that lived in oceans and streams and were connected to everything, for everything in the world is connected to water, from the oceans to rivers and lakes, to the moisture in the air and the clouds that float across the sky. Even in the deserts are connected by cacti and underground waterways. These stones are told the name of the website by the tiny postman and they reach out across the world and think and connect and think and find, then they tell the postman where the website is located.

The postman writes down the location and follows a map that is always carried with him. He takes many paths to get to his destination on many vehicles such as running, cars, shopping carts down hills, lightbikes, and sometimes even riding the backs of webspiders. His destination, in the case of this site, is the Bluehost servers. I really prefer the Bluehost servers, for they are blue, my favorite color. The postman enters the servers, find the proper address, and goes inside. He then gets an envelope from a box that contains envelopes for just this occasion. He takes the envelope and stuffs it in his bag and takes the envelope back to your browser and slips it into a slot. Then the browser opens the envelope, and gathers the information from inside, then loads the page.

If you would like to make a site and have little tiny electronic postmen visit it and takes it to people all around the world, send a little postman to the Web Hosting Bluebook and he will deliver to you a site that has reviews and links to various web hosting services. You can use the opinions there as well as my own (if you are looking for a server that is blue, at least) to decide where you would like to place your site for the little postmen to visit. There is also a forum on the site that contains other opinions that you can review. Your postmen may be hasty, but don’t be too hasty yourself in choosing a webserver.

I never knew that!

The site also has pictures of some of the most epic battles of all time!

I even found comics!

The site is a breeze to view and read the text on - I enjoyed my visit with The Space Turtle and would like to see this author get real exposure.

Justin, Good luck!