Spirit's Space debuted September 23, 1999.

At first, it was just a set of pages on the user account of my ISP, a company I've long since left.

I migrated it to its own domain some time in the early 2000s. At the time, I registered it as spritsspace.com because I didn't understand that the .com suffix was inappropriate for a personal web site.

In 2013, I heavily revised the site and moved it to its current location, spiritsspace.org.

In 2020, I heavily revised the site again. Most of these revisions concerned the HTML, the CSS file, and the folder structure, and are not visible to the user.

Except for the splash page, the Earth 2 page, and the Doctor Who page, every page on Spirit's Space has a plain white background. Some people may think this is boring or unimaginative. I love it. To me, the white background makes it look like my words and photos are suspended in an infinite white void, and I think that's beautiful.

I don't like web sites which assault my senses with a ton of words, graphics, videos, and noise crammed into every available pixel, from edge to edge. I don't deal with such sites easily. Spirit's Space is intentionally spartan, because I believe that when it comes to web design, simplicity is beauty.

I know there are other ways to achieve this simplicity than an infinite white void. But I'm very much a writer, a little bit of a photographer, and absolutely not an artist or a graphic designer in the slightest. I don't think in terms of graphics. I want words, pictures, and a few videos, nothing else. I provide words, pictures, and a few videos, nothing else. So the infinite white void is what I have.