[photo of Congo's scary-looking giant Tiger Fish]  Jesus, and i was planning to go there in the mid '90s! The Web started in 1993, as far as websites go, and by 1994 i have built world's biggest at a time website on Congo, with maps and all, because i was planning an expedition there, right after i came back from my European and West Indies trip. I was living at the Norman Elder Museum of Natural History at a time where Norm was heading the Explorers Club. That's where i met my good friend whom i still see once in a while at the coffee shop in the Kensington market. 

Anyway, Norm was in Congo and had many trophies to prove it. He told me much about the region and advised me to not risk it going there at a time due to political instability. Norm later i heard got tangled with the Maple Leaf sex scandal and died mysteriously shortly after. Parts of his museum were absorbed by the ROM and the rest was auctioned and given away. I took his advise and moved on to better things than travelling in footsteps of Dr. David Livingstone and Sir Henry Morton Stanley on behalf of king Leopold II of Belgium. It became my first website and passion ever since, researching, designing, and building websites that is. 

Now my Congo website is a testament to the early web good use of the ASCII art and small graphics. It is now part of the web history as many of my other early websites. This is an upgraded version of the Congo website done around 1996/7 (tip: click on the pictures to proceed):

http://archive.groovy.net/congo/

and this is the original from 1994, you can see the big difference as html and browsers were evolving very rapidly:

http://archive.groovy.net/congo/1st-ever/