Nathan B's Way. The NateWay. - Nathan B's Historical Site

1984

Born.

1992

Played Final Fantasy 2 (4j)

1995-1999

Beat Earthbound

First Rudimentary Website

Discovered Pokemon

First Serious Artistic Attempts

First Online Writings

2000

First LiveJournal Design

First Personal Website

First Online-Posted Art

First Major, Award-Winning Website (for NetMonster)

2001

Became adept at mIRC scripting

First Major Comic Project

First mIRC 'Game'

Played DDR for the first time

Attended Harvard Summer School

2002

Got AP Credit on 3/4 courses.

High School Complete

First MUSH

Won "Best FanSite" contest for the same MUSH

Able to complete Heavy songs in DDR

First Final Paper in Website Form

2003

First personal portfolio site launched

First website made for a friend

First major art poster completed

Second and third websites made for friends.

Got into Homestar Runner

2004

Began using Mozilla Firefox

Began Work on my own major through UMass's BDIC Program

Played Parappa and Um Jammer Lammy for the first time

Finished a major animation, won Honorable Mention

Built my first Computer from parts

Modeled various objections & people in 3D

Broke my Clavicle

2005

Discovered Cave Story, a game made by one man

Learned how to use Flash, and animated therein

Last serious LiveJournal redesign

2006

Animated a variety of 3D models

Fifth major art poster completed.

First complex flash 'shoot-em-up' game engine.

Major comic thesis submitted.

UMass Amherst complete.

Discovered Rhythm Tengoku

Learned XSLT, XML, PHP, MySQL, better CSS

Worked with Mambo, Joomla, and Insight Builder

First major and complex flash display

2007

First serious experiences with Linux

Began getting into more "Indie" games

Creating documents outline and detailing project's work to be done

Built second computer by hand

First visit to a colocation facility

First experience with Windows Server 2000.

2008

Second professional flash animation

Embraced They Might Be Giants' Music

Regular sysadmin use of Windows Server.

Third professional flash animation

First experience with SilverStripe

First professional work with Python

Saw fireflies for the first time

Completed Portal

Discovered & dissected method of Audio Preview on Youtube

New LJ Design created, not used.

2009

Completed first DDR ONI Course

First live performance of Louis C.K.

Finished professional landing page flash animation

Experience with Windows Server 2008

Exhortation of 'conversion testing' for the future

First multi-level community site

First 100-page website of complete & multi-level SHTML includes

Professional installation of a company-produced server at client facility.

New Resume and Portfolio complete

2010

First Android Phone

Taste-tested Meads

First saw Joe Versus The Volcano

Completed Bioshock

First Experience with DND

First They Might Be Giants concert

First experience with jQuery

Drastically improved site scalability through evaluating use needs & creating a solution

Wrote conversion tracking into the form scripts

Authored documentation for supporting 3rd party affiliates

First COMET Javascript functions

Built a "Groupon"-like experiment.

First CMS based securely grabbing remote data.

2011

Second Android Phone

First Mobile CSS

Got into Google Reader

Got into LifeHacker

Completed my first Whole30

Beat Ghost Trick

First attempt at a MythTV Home Media PC.

Third Android Phone

Won tickets & saw Chromeo for the first time.

Company website hit a major fiscal milestone.

Beat Bastion

2012

Finished a comprehensive 'Commission Pricing' site.

First made Takoyaki

Managed & worked on integration of a new posting system.

Began drawing a bit more

First implementation of HTML5 Javascript file upload/analysis.

Cut up the new Attorneys.com design into HTML & CSS

Applied the new design to my PHP codebase

Began work on a Dropbox PHP CMS

Launch of new NateWay

Launch of new NateWork