I'm continuing to collect images and memories "retrieved" from the recent trip to Hualien (see Youthful Reminisces ). I started writing this post on March 16, 2019. Most of the documents included are from a time period in my rearing when I began to explore possible career options and interests, in some way setting the path to where I am today. BitSmart: Ron Huang, Ted Way, Me, My Mother, Albert Lin, Helios Yu. [see an older, rambling article here] During my high school years (1995-1998), the Internet with hypertext html was beginning to develop rapidly. For those of us that played around with computers, we were already using messaging programs ( ICQ later AIM), text based email ( Eudora , pine ) and bulletin board systems ( ptt.cc ). Developing webpages was, for me at least, a neat idea and way to write and record a little something about myself. In particular, webpages were not just text based, rather a key component that made the internet fun for me was the ab...