Back when THL originally had been offered webspace with his first non-AOL internet access in the mid 1990s, in his teenage wonder of what could be crafted, he wanted to make a list of everything scifi: every book, every movie, every story in every scifi magazine, etc, and it would be called 'the homeworld' and he set to work on it.

It soon became apparent that such a task was too big of an idea, so he scaled back to a more reasonable collection: inspirational email forwards that were popular at the time. In order to pay homage to his original concept, he renamed the little web space plot 'the homeland' in April 1997, and that name stuck, representing loads and loads of other ideas he would later dream about as his new life's work and then have to scale back again or set aside as it was more complex than feasible. In May 2000, he registered thehomeland.org, and signed on with a then- South African web host called Hostyard which offered hosting for $20/yr, no frills.

The site has undergone easily a dozen reboots with new directions to take, realized it wasn't feasible to maintain, rebooted, forgot about it, rebooted, had a good run of content but suddenly forgotten, rebooted, short burst of content but forgotten, etc. This wiki version may very well be another such short-lived reboot.

One of the longest successful runs was in the form of The Dead Sea Blogs which I will try to restore the prior versions. It was mostly a slice-of-life online journal before sites like xanga and livejournal crowded it out, with various links to neat web places to visit.

This wiki is called Main Page, a reference to the BBS community he was part of before the commercial internet really took off. THL used to design main menus for the local boards in ANSI graphics, using MS-DOS art GUI called TheDRAW, so perhaps this can be a main menu for a figurative BBS, autobiographically about THL himself.