Paranoia.com: An Internet Mystery

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- In 1995, a website was created by a man known as none other than KevinTX. It's called paranoia.com, and its main focus was to foster what he described as a free speech platform to anyone wanting to host their own little piece of cyberspace. The website largely functioned as a repository. Back during its prime, hundreds of users

flocked to Kevin's site hosting all sorts of strange, abrasive webpages on his servers. In fact, Kevin partook in this too, and seemed to relish in the fact that paranoia was garnering so much attention so quickly. (suspenseful music) "Just to set things straight, Paranoia is run, not-for-profit. I personally provided all of the initial equipment

and have supported the system's costs in finances and time at a personal loss because I feel so strongly about the presence of a system like this on the net. It's been very rewarding to watch an idealistic dream turn into reality. I've met a lot of really great net-denizence and have seen firsthand how this project

has been able to empower people who wouldn't otherwise have nice net access at a low cost." (suspenseful music) It's clear that Kevin's motives were noble, even if some of what he states on his various pages are a bit eccentric. Nevertheless, he harbors an excitement for community, a drive to give people a voice of expression

and scattered across Paranoia's archives, for better or worse, we're able to find just that. (suspenseful music)