Twin Cities MIDI was a website that I created back when I was in grad school.  Other than a small personal home page, this was my first real web endeavor.

The whole thing started out in late 1994 as a MIDI on the Macintosh page, after I stumbled through the process of getting MIDI files downloaded and working on a Mac (which was a bit unintuitive back then).  Much to my surprise, many folks not only were able to find this page, but actually found it interesting!  I then expanded the simple page into a full-blown MIDI site, which served both as an excuse for me to hone my  website development skills as well as an outlet for my interests in computers and music.  Things were quite different in those early days of the internet-- I coded all the pages on that site by hand.

In the site's "glory days" it boasted a large list of MIDI contacts from around the world, and generated more emails than I ever had time to answer.  This, combined with my new job in the music software industry, led to me losing interest in the site.  I posted info on the site that it would be taken down unless someone else took over management of it.

Fortunately, such a person came forward, and in late 1997 I passed the site management to David Stevens, another Twin Cities resident.  Dave made some changes, additions, and improvements, and even gave the site it's own domain name.  Unfortunately, not much has happened on the site as of late, but it's still there.   Some pages, such as the Mac MIDI page, are virtually identical to the way I left them in 1997.  Other parts, such as the MIDI contact list, have disappeared altogether.  In any case, it's still alive.  It may not be kicking, but it's still alive, which is cool.  Here we are in the year 2004, which is the 10th anniversary of Twin Cities MIDI.  How many other personal websites have lasted that long?   

Feel free to  check it out.

As an aside:  Compare the Twin Cities MIDI logo at the top of this page to this picture.