# Bits & Bytes is back

Today, I’m renaming this blog to its original name, _Bits & Bytes_.

_Bits & Bytes_ started in around 2000, a few years after I made my first
website, in the times of table layouts and before the PNG format was
commonplace. It went on and off, through many iterations and little sites of
mine since then. In its beginning, it was a diary I was posting to the public,
when the Internet was more innocent while I had no filter. I didn’t care to
distinguish personal life from tech and other hobbies, so every paragraph would
have an entry about my hardships in college while another was some update about
Windows.

Nowadays, I save this kind of intimate reflection for my other sites—you’ll have
to dig around to find them. In fact, going through an archive of my old sites,
looking for past _Bits & Bytes_ entries of which I could take screenshots, I
went through intense moments of cringe where my only relief was being grateful
the Internet Archive never captured those to store in its eternal memory. I only
found one article from October 2000 which still made me wince, yet was passable
for sharing with the public. Reading it made me realise how verbosely I could
say very little.

![](/bits/bits-and-bytes-is-back/20001010.png) _Bits & Bytes_ on _Cressida_, an
antecedent to _RÉMINO_, 2000-10-10.

Yet, this also made me realise, hey, I was still in high school. I’m sure many
of us weren’t really mature back in those days and had our load of words we
should have never uttered. Reading those old posts of mine, I noticed how much
I’ve grown, how many things I’ve learned, and how different I do things today.
Long gone are the times when I posted my personal diary online—I use a diary app
for that now, and I keep those to myself with perhaps the occasional banter
about my thoughts with AI.

However, one desire has always remained: my need to share knowledge that can
benefit people around me, telling stories to make listeners think, and finding
ways to connect with others. The only difference today is instead of putting all
my eggs into one blog, I’ve learned to find the outlets and media most
appropriate for what I want to say.

A while back, I renamed this to just _Bits_, thinking less is more. The minimal
title was cleaner, maybe. But it also felt a little too dry, clipped, and
detached from where all of this began. So, as a small homage to nearly thirty
years of being online, making, breaking, and fixing websites—and to the medium
that became my first creative outlet, part of my career, and a quiet witness to
my becoming—_Bits & Bytes_ is back.

Until the next article, thank you all for reading.