About this site

My very first web pages, from September 1994, were just a short recursive joke. In July 1995, I created a real web site; for the first few years, it was called Martinland. Because people weren't very familiar with the web, I took the opportunity to fill my pages with confusing instructions and a help function consisting of an anteater making weird noises.

The mid-90's web was a nerdier place, and many pages I created were parodies of things that were popular then, including a fake webcam where you could electrify the floor, a club for people unable to memorize two digits of pi, and an "HTML virus" (modeled after .sig viruses from Usenet).

Over the years, I added lots of drawings, web games, and writing to the site. In 2005, I moved it to www.rebas.se, but due to repetitive strain injuries I wasn't able to update it much for a decade, until I finally got better and modernized the site in 2014/2015.

Media attention

In August 1995, Z Magazine wrote that my site was one of the 50 most creative personal sites in Sweden.
In November 1997, I won the Swedish national home page competition Hemsides-SM, and got to say confused things about my site on TV. After I was announced as the winner, I couldn't resist replacing the index page of my site with an utterly terrible page that insinuated that I'd won through nepotism, as a practical joke. Sorry about that. (If a visitor clicked any link, or just waited for half a minute, they were automatically taken to my real site, but still, I can't imagine that the companies behind the contest were very happy. That might be one reason why they never repeated the contest. Anyway, because there's never been another winner, I conclude that I'm still the undefeated Swedish champion at making personal home pages.)

In February 1998, I was interviewed about Pi Approximation Day on Israeli radio.
In April 1999, I temporarily used part of Alphaville's song Sounds like a melody in my game AI Pengo without Alphaville's permission. Soon, Alphaville's webmaster and manager contacted me, and I expected them to ask me to remove the song. Surprisingly, they wrote that I could continue to use it, asked if they could have the game on their site, and even asked me if I could make an official Alphaville game(!).
In July 1999, Stina Johansson wrote a ridiculously nice review of my site in Sydsvenskan.
In November 1999, my page was mentioned in the Swedish TV show Sajber.
In January 2002, my world domination page was mentioned in a Shift article about, um, world domination.
In July 2003, an article in The Observer about "23 things you always wanted to know about numbers" contained a reference to my Pi Approximation Day pages.
In August 2005, Göteborgs-Posten wrote about my elephant flag.