History of The Little Bookstore

September 1993
I started my study Computing Science at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE) in the Netherlands. As a test, all Computing Science-students received an email-address and were given free Internet-access. A few weeks/months later, I created my first basic web-page and discovered the web, that was just starting to grow.
September 1994
I created my first whole web-site (for my students-club Demos). As a part of it, I published some information I found interesting. This included a lot of links to various sites about pyrotechnics, which was a hobby of mine. A very special link was the one to the Terrorist Handbook at www.lysator.liu.se, which was converted to HTML in 1994 by Henrik Rindlöw and Lars Sjödin.
January 1995
I finaly got my own webspace at Stack, a TUE-student computer-club, on which I put some pages concerning programming in perl. I also moved my link-list to this account. I received some nice ammount of visitors, also due to the fact that when somebody searched for 'Terrorist', my page would show up high in the search-engines that were available at that time.
May/July 1995
In May 1995 the Terrorist Handbook-files were removed at www.lysator.liu.se because of 'bad quality'. They were republished at my own site in July 1995, after I received the original html-files from Henrik Rindlöw. This section received a lot of visitors.
September 1995
Starting Up!
After receiving a lot of requests, I decided to add 'The Anarchist Cookbook'. After browsing the Internet, I soon found out that it was only available as one big textfile. I decided to convert it to HTML, just like Henrik Rindlöw and Lars Sjödin did with the Terrorist Handbook:

October 5: Added pages 001 till 099
October 6: Added pages 100 till 125
October 9: Added pages 126 till 159
October 14: Added pages 160 till 179
October 18: Added pages 180 till 220

In the process, two conversions went wrong and the pages were lost: page 120 and page 200. When looking around on other sites with a HTML-version, you'll notice that these two pages are missing everywhere.

My page just kept growing, and more visitors came every day, until

July 1996
Shut Down!

On the 9th of July '96 some questions were asked in our 'Tweede kamer' (the Second Chamber, our congres / parliament) by Van der Vlies (SGP), Witteveen (PvdA) and Van der Burg (PvdA) about the availability of the Anarchist Cookbook and The Terrorist Handbook on the original site at Stack. The SGP (some strict christian party) and the PvdA (a labour-party) thought that this kind of information shouldn't be available on a Dutch server and they asked the cabinet to take some actions. In a reaction, the Governing Body of the TUE then ordered Stack to remove it. Knowing me for causing some troubles before (more of that will be added later), they instantly shut my page down.

It became a hot issue when various news-papers called, and I was asked to appear on television and radio-shows... More info about this will be added later.

For a few weeks, my page was down. I received a lot of email from people that offered me free webspace in the USA. I decided to put up two mirrors of my page, which I linked directly in my frame-settings. Due to some legal problems, these pages were taken down also in a couple of months.

April 1997 - April 1999
Back Online!

I got webspace at various account at Xoom and Tripod. Whenever my site became popular again, it was looked upon by either xoom or tripod-staff and as a result was taken down. I ordered a forward at V3, http://come.to/anarchy, which would point to the correct site. This forward was also taken down for a few days, but after an email-conservation, it was put back up again. So it was, is and will be http://come.to/anarchy as the main entrance URL, but I had to move my site a lot.

May 1999
Getting tired of moving my page each couple of months, I finally got my own domain, www.weirdpier.com. This site now provides a safe place for 'The Little Bookstore', as I'm not willing to quit.