For many years, the public face of this website was a "splash" image. There was no visible content or any visible proof that this site was used for much. Really, it wasn't. But there were a collection of dropboxes I used for sharing data, and some tools I used for collaborating with others. And for about a decade, that stuff all ran on a "webmaster" account at pair.com.
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