Quite soon after that I found myself in possession of the ability, and the possibility, of using the Internet, and the World Wide Web in particular, I started to look for information about (in my humble opinion) the best Rock-n’-Roll-band in the world; u2. This was in the autumn of 1994.
Some month later I dawned on me that I knew what two of the songs was about – Pride and Angel of Harlem – but wanted to know what the others were about. I started in early 1995 with building a homepage for ”The Meaning of U2 Lyrics” and started to ask in the two USENET newsgroups alt.fan.u2 and alt.music.u2 for others opinions and what they both thought and knew. I didn’t knew then that my page was the only one on the Web dedicated to the very core of U2: the message in their songs. Since then I have only stumbled upon a few other sites, two of them called Wisdom of Bono and Three Sunrises. They all tend to be short lived though.
In the beginning I asked almost every second week and my throat became quite sore. But I’m happy to tell You, dear guest and reader, that that paid of.
In the start I held all the ideas in one file, but about half a year later the file was 78 KByte (all text, no pictures counted!) and I divided it into many different files, one for each album. During the Christmas 1996 I had to split up some of the albums into individual files, one for each song… Where this will end I do not know…
About this time I started to abbreviate ”The Meaning of U2 Lyrics” into U2MoL and was was thinking on move the pages to a better location. Until now U2MoL had lived it’s life beneath ”The Running U2 Archive” – an Yahoo-wannabe for U2 – (also known as RU2A) but during the summer of 1998 I moved it up one step in the directory-structure to the toplevel and decided to delete RU2A (it was not big, not good and I didn’t have the time nor inclination to maintain it). It was in this reconstruction that I decided to do some cleaning among the contributions. It was aslo now that I started to enforce my new policy on how to contribute and decided that I in the future would have some opinions about the text people sent me – if it wasn’t good enough I will reject it! This was entirely new – until then I had added almost everything people sent me and it sort of got out of hand. Now I try to add texts that explains what U2 meant, not what the song meant to one fan. I declared the new U2MoL finished on 16th of October 1998 around 6.30 pm CET and then deleted RU2A and the old U2MoL.
What has happend since is that the site moved from www.dtek.chalmers.se to my ISP’s web space, hem.bredband.net, January/February 2003 and during 2003 and 2004 some layout maintenance has been performed (mostly the introduction of CSS for style handling). The contribution rules are still a working document, from time to time I receives flames that declare the rules stupid and impossible to understand, and I try to rewrite them once or twice a year to make them more simple.
The site had gathered some dust (old entries and whatnot) and during the first quarter of 2006 was it time for a bit of spring cleaning. I then created the U2MoL Golb as an experiment and and enhanced the RSS feed I had created about a year earlier. A bit of a redesign of the site was also commenced.
But say the happiness that lasts… I had been thinking on making a number of enhancements to my entire site that all required scripting capabilities at the server side, and since my ISP had none of that, I had to take my site somewhere else. At the end of September 2007 did I buy myself some webhotel space and registered a domain, muorji.se and the migrations started at once. One of the major benefits of this was that I could move the U2MoL Golb over to a real blog, and rename it to the U2MoLog, the U2MoL (B)Log. Not that I had any comments about the Golb, I don’t expect any comments on the U2MoLog either, but now it’s possible to comment.
The most funny, and at the same time confusing, misunderstanding is that I write all the entries. That is plain wrong. Historically have I only written about ten per cent of the texts.
Anyway, it is here we stand now…