From a depressed Apache to 2026

Back in 2011 I made a joke: anyone visiting galcea.ro would find a blue error screen, styled after the Windows of that era, and then the site's "Apache server" would start typing to them personally. It complained that someone had pressed the wrong button, that the website got deleted, that it was depressed and considering uninstalling itself. If you stayed on the page, it got genuinely upset and stopped talking to you.

The joke ran for 15 years — a respectable uptime, even for humor. Meanwhile, a few things changed: browsers moved into our pockets, I finished a master's degree in artificial intelligence, and servers no longer complain about visitors — nowadays visitors complain about AI.

So the depressed Apache is retiring with full honors. I didn't delete it: it lives quietly in the museum, exactly as it was, invented STOP codes and all. If you visit, be gentle. It had a rough career.

Here, on the new site, I'll occasionally post notes about the internet, artificial intelligence and things that amuse or intrigue me. No promises about frequency: I write when I have something to say — a publishing policy I wish more of the internet had.