It was the summer of 1995, and I was on the University of Houston campus for Impact Houston Work Camp. We were there to paint houses in Third Ward, one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods.

We were staying in the tower dorms, and for some reason they let us use the computer lab. I went to Yahoo.com, the only website I had heard of back in those days.

Somehow I ended up on TwinkiesProject.com, a website made by Rice University students to celebrate procrastination during finals week by experimenting with Twinkies. As the site explains, “T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. stands for Tests With Inorganic Noxious Kakes In Extreme Situations.” Yes indeed. They burn, microwave, drop, smash, and do just about everything imaginable to a Twinkie in the name of science.

This was the first website I ever really visited, if you don’t count Yahoo! (which I used as a search engine/directory and not for its own content, so I’m not counting it). It was nearly 11 years ago, and boy does it bring back memories. Today I found it again when visiting some blogs I saw in my referrer stats. I’m glad the T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project is still amusing internet users with too much time on their hands, including procrastinators like me :).