There is something wonderfully honest about a numbered menu. It does not pretend to know you. It does not ask you to sign in with three separate services. It simply says: here are six things; choose one.

Micronet and Prestel had that directness. So did Teletext. You were not browsing in the modern sense. You were navigating a machine that made its structure visible.

That is part of the thinking behind this archive. A personal site can be warm and readable without becoming a brochure. It can show its joins. It can let visitors move through a career like they are paging through a service that has somehow stayed online.

Press 1 for home. Press 4 for writing. You know where you are. There is a lot to be said for that.