Back in 1991, at the age of 12, I started keeping my own music "charts" to reflect my favorite songs each week. In hindsight, I was probably pretending that I was an MTV veejay. I continued this routine of keeping written notes until 1994, at which time I changed gears entirely and began to commit the actual recordings onto mix tapes. Consequently, the handwritten records ceased at this time (although there are instances where I transcribed the track list onto the cassette's inlay, or "J"-card). Keeping record by way of audio cassette lasted a very long time, and I am fortunate to say that I still have every last one of them, tucked away in storage for safekeeping.

Sometime around the year 2000, I began posting the weekly entries (in the form of text) to the Internet. For this purpose, I am fairly certain that my first "homepage" was on Yahoo! Geocities, as I cannot recall using any other service to build pages prior to that. Though left orphaned for many years, they're still sitting there in the public domain, frozen in time for all to see.

In 2003, I finally made the transition to using CD-Rs, which ended the long era of cassettes for good. And finally, it was in 2007 that I got the idea to turn this into a podcast. From that point forward, each weekly entry became a single 32kbps mp3 file of multiple songs (sometimes only a single song) that I crossfaded together myself. It has been this way ever since.

I have recently begun the process of working backward from 2007, my ultimate goal being to create a chain of mp3 files dating all the way back to 1991…the beginning. So far I have made it through to 2004, which is pretty decent progress I think.