Domain
Although I have been building websites for several years now, Disdainful Soul in any incarnation did not exist until mid-2006. It was around this time that I discovered the miracles that are DIVs (yes, yes…. I coded using tables made in Dreamweaver *hangs head*), and started learning about web standards. Disdainful Soul 1.0 was hosted first on Awardspace, and then was kindly hosted by Isabelle at Erebiel.net.
The domain name, disdainful-soul.net, is a reference to the last line of the Aeneid. As a student of classics - especially literature and myth - we studied all the great epics: Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, and Virgil’s Aeneid. When looking for a name for my new LiveJournal, I decided to go with something classical. Always loving the description of Turnus’s final moments, I chose a section of that to be my new ID.
The crimson stream distain’d his arms around,
And the disdainful soul came rushing thro’ the wound.
For a while, I was content to use Awardspace as an adfree host which allowed PHP, but soon after I was offered hosting at Erebiel.net by Isabelle.
On May 9, 2007, I purchased hosting and a domain name from Site5, and moved from scarlet.erebiel.net to my current location, http://disdainful-soul.net.
