the robe:
Once upon a time, theonlinenet was a place for jokes, comical pictures, information about foreign countries, and reviews of various musical things. My job at TON was fairly easy as all I had to do was steal jokes, format them, and send them to jay for uploading. On the odd occasion I was requested to write a review of an album, but this was pretty much stretching the amount of effort that I was willing to put into TON.

This kind of thing continued for quite a few months until the issue of profiles because quite exciting, as people other than ourselves were actually reading them, and as strange as it may seem, they were actually liking them. Jay thought it was marvellous that people were actually reading what rubbish we put on ‘ere, and decided that we were to concentrate our efforts on profiles. I was not too pleased about this, as profiles meant original work had to be put into content for TON, however I was not one to argue with the taskmaster himself, so I tapped in a few badly put-together reviews of various people, and Jay was content.

But then a few months later on, Jay was not happy yet again, he wanted the actual design of TON to be of a higher standard, I said aye, a little tweaking never did anyone harm, and so gave the go-ahead, ahem, for him to put his best creative foot forward, and write some spanking new HTML code. To say I wasn’t impressed with the new look would be a lie, although I wasn’t happy about the fact that the basis of TON now seemed to be on large chunks of text stating opinions, views, and other comical jabberings, what later would become known as ‘articles’.

Again not one to go against the crowd, I wrote a few articles, I may even be surprised to find half a dozen if I can be energetic enough to get off my fat arse and look through the article listings to find the ones that I have written. After coming back from a weekend away from the computer, I was surprised to see about twenty articles, most of which were written by Mr King. I was impressed with his both the effort that he was putting into the number of articles, and also the quality of them, yet secretly I was annoyed as I knew I couldn’t be arsed to do anything productive with my time, and would much rather watch TV, or sleep.

Yet another few months on, Mr Rawson, now ex-TON associate, wished to write a ‘guest article’ about cucumbers, a few days after this, rusty wrote a strange piece about peaches, and requested a space on TON for it, space was grated, the article was formatted avec a bra covered lady from Victoriassecret.com. Another article came from each of this pair before the might of Jameson was brought upon us. The first article ‘behind the laughter’ was a mere taster of what this article writing machine would bring to TON. After the first few pieces I thought the man would give up, possibly retiring, yet he kept sending it in to Jay for uploading. I believe over one weekend he managed to tap in no less than seven articles, what keeps this man going is beyond human comprehension.

Now, at the 100th TON article it can be seen that the majority of articles are by Jameson and Jay, with a chunk by Rawson, Rog and Rusty, and a smudgen by myself, the original, yet the weakest, bugger