It’s Wednesday. With Halloween just days away, I figured it was the perfect time to showcase a few more spooky decorations! The haunts featured in today’s video come straight from some of the most impressive Halloween displays in Queens, New York!

And, it’s shot in horrifying 4k… Enjoy!

-keep

It’s Tuesday. Here we go, it’s the final week of October and you can feel Halloween closing in. Every evening, more yards light up with glowing pumpkins, ghostly figures, and armies of skeletons doing everything from mowing lawns to climbing rooftops. Cobwebs stretch across bushes, witches crash into trees, and the air smells of burning leaves. Neighborhoods seem to be competing for the best display, and it’s impossible not to slow down and take it all in!

-keep

G’day Keep, These pics are from the same yard that I sent you last year. The home owner has done a bit of upgrading. South East Houston Astoria Blvd. -S.M.

It’s Monday. Back in 1995, the internet was a very different place—more like a digital frontier than the bustling metropolis it is today. Most people got online through noisy dial-up modems that tied up the household phone line and crawled along at painfully slow speeds. Websites were simple, text-heavy, and often filled with garish backgrounds and blinking GIFs. Search engines were in their infancy, so finding anything usually meant browsing through directories like Yahoo or manually typing in web addresses you heard about from friends or magazines. Email felt revolutionary, chat rooms were the social media of the time, and downloading a single image could take several minutes. Despite all that, in early October 1995, I decided that it might be fun to build a website.

There weren’t many Internet Service Providers to choose from back in 1995. I was using AOL and CompuServe at the time, but I knew neither was the right fit to host my website. Then I heard about a new local ISP called CNSnet that offered reasonable rates and, more importantly, no content restrictions. I decided to sign up and start building my site, though I had no idea it would soon become CNSnet’s biggest headache.

When I began developing the site, I had two main goals: first, to create something more interesting than the dull, text-heavy websites of the day; and second, to get it in front of as many eyes as possible. It didn’t happen overnight, but by November of 1995, the site was pulling enough traffic to regularly overload CNSnet’s server. That led to a rocky relationship. They’d tweak their setup to handle the load, it would hold for a day or two, and then crash again. They were frustrated because their other customers were complaining that the server was down, and I was frustrated because my site was frequently down. It became clear I needed a new host.

I reached out to an old acquaintance from my BBS days who had started his own ISP called UTI (Under The Influence). I explained the situation and warned him about the heavy traffic involved. To my surprise, he agreed to host the site and for years, my site ran flawlessly at UTI without a single issue. I stayed with them until they eventually shut down, another casualty of the big corporate wave as giants like GoDaddy and HostGator took over and priced out the smaller ISPs.

I hated to see UTI go, but that’s the nature of the ever evolving web.

And that’s how this place started and how it got here today. When it ends, who knows. But whether you’ve been around since the early days or just discovered it recently, I truly appreciate your support, donations, and content contributions. Here’s to 30 years and thank you for being part of the ride.

-keep

Oh, and I decided to switch things up a bit. Instead of the usual single daily babe, I’m posting 30 of them—one for every year this site has been around. But after looking at the lineup, 30 just didn’t feel like enough to properly celebrate, so I bumped the number up a little. Enjoy!