DrPsychotic.com Celebrates Fifteen Years Online

As of December 31st 2015, DrPsychotic.com celebrates fifteen years online. It was all the byproduct of a failed local arts magazine.

You see, In 1999, I decided to try to do a local arts magazine that would include humor and some of my cartoons as well as a few other things. It was supposed to be sort of the local arts scene meets Mad Magazine. Unfortunately, it only survived three issues and a fourth was finished but never went to print.

After the magazine went under, I took what was left of some of the content and created a website with it. At first, it was a little lean on features and maybe had a dozen pages or so. Since then, It has grown to be over 3,000 pages and includes features like guitar lessons, mandolin, banjo, balalaika, piano and mandola chords, as well as harmonica and soprano recorder songs.

The biggest section of the site is the classic poetry section, which is about 1,800 pages itself. Then we also have jokes, a photo gallery and a cartoon gallery. That's not all either. Just check the site out for yourself to see what all is there. Just log on to DrPsychotic.com.

After the creation of DrPsychotic.com, I decided to create more websites. Some did well and others did not. I eventually created Craypoe.com to be a centralized location where all of my websites may be accessed from. Now I refer to it all as the Craypoe.com network of websites.

Originally, the Doctor Psychotic character was just a 2D cartoon as displayed on the left. You can see how he was actually developed in stages. A few years ago, I decided to create a 3D version like the one you see above. Doctor Psychotic was the beginning of my internet presence and it has grown significantly since December 31st 2000. I have written hundreds of blog posts and online articles. I've created a number of videos and posted them on my YouTube page. I have my music online as well too.

I am not bragging about all of the things I have done and continue to do or the things I have achieved. The point is that it all really started as a result of one of my failures. I could never have foreseen back in December of 2000 what would eventually become of it all, up to this point. After the failure of the magazine, it was pretty hard to imagine that all that much would come from that failure. As I look at it all now, I am so glad I didn't give up on everything.

So if you attempt something and fail, try to think of what you might be able to salvage from it. Start over again and build up from there. Learn from your mistakes and keep plugging away at things. You just never know what might happen in the end. Good luck with salvaging your failures.

Bob Craypoe, also known as R. L. Crepeau