WorldVillage Just Got A Second Life, And I Did Not Write A Single Article

I registered WorldVillage.com in 1995.

Let that sit for a second. Nineteen ninety-five. Netscape was the hot browser. People were still arguing about whether email would catch on. The Spice Girls had not happened yet. And I was sitting at a desk in front of a beige monitor thinking that this strange new “World Wide Web” thing was going to matter.

WorldVillage is one of maybe fifty websites in the entire world that has been continuously owned by its original owner since those very early days. Out of billions of domains. Fifty.

And for years, I treated mine like a redheaded freckle-faced stepchild at Kmart.

Sorry to any gingers reading this. You know I love you.

The site that time forgot

If you have been around the early web, you might remember image maps. Those big graphical interfaces where you would click on a part of a drawing to navigate somewhere else. My original WorldVillage homepage was one of those. A little illustrated village, and you would click on the church, or the school, or the shop, to wander into different parts of the site.

It was charming. It was 1995. It was also, eventually, very neglected.

I never stopped paying the renewal. I never let it lapse. But for a long stretch of years, I did not have the bandwidth to keep writing fresh content for it. Other projects took over. Books got written. Podcasts got launched. Speaking calendars filled up. And WorldVillage sat there, quietly, like an old family cabin that nobody had time to visit.

Anyone who has ever owned a piece of digital real estate that mattered to them knows this feeling. You keep paying the bill. You keep meaning to do something with it. The years stack up.

Then I met my new writing partner

In February 2026, I crossed a line.

I had been dabbling with AI tools for about three years. Casual stuff. A prompt here, an experiment there. But I had not really opened the door, and I had not really understood what was on the other side of it.

Then I started using Claude, and specifically a tool called Claude Code, which lets you build things in plain English. I told my younger self if I could go back in time, “Pay attention to AI, and buy lots of Bitcoin.” Both pieces of advice felt equally true.

Here is what I did with WorldVillage.

I built an AI agent. I gave it a name. I trained it on my voice. The cadence I use, the kinds of openers I like, the way I tell a story, the topics I gravitate toward. Then I pointed it at the site and said, in essence, here are the verticals and content clusters that live here. I want you to spin up three original articles a day, eight hundred to a thousand words apiece, in my voice. I want you to embed deep links to relevant pieces on this site and my other sites where it makes sense. I want you to generate a thumbnail image to go with each article.

And then I want you to do it on autopilot.

It does.

Why this matters more than the words

When you go and read those articles, they sound like me. Not like a robot pretending to be me. Like me. The voice is right. The references are mine. The pattern recognition is mine. Because I trained the thing on years of my own writing, and the AI is not making things up out of thin air, it is amplifying a voice that already existed.

That distinction matters, and I want to be honest about it. There is a lot of AI slop floating around the internet right now. Articles that read like they were written by someone who has never actually thought about the topic. I am not interested in adding to that pile. What I am interested in is taking thirty years of writing, opinions, and stories, and finally giving WorldVillage the regular voice it has been missing for a decade.

The site is alive again. The archive is growing. The little village has lights on in the windows again.

The bigger picture for anyone with a dormant website

If you have a domain sitting in your closet, this is the moment.

Maybe it is the blog you started in 2011 and abandoned by 2013. Maybe it is the side project site you registered three years ago and never built. Maybe it is, like mine, a domain with real history and real archive value that you simply have not had time to feed.

The tools exist now to bring those sites back. Not by faking content. By scaling your own voice in a way that was completely impossible eighteen months ago.

The thing I keep telling people, on stages and on my AI for Everyone podcast, is that we are not late to this. We are early. So early that most of the world is still asking whether AI can write a decent email. Meanwhile, a handful of people are quietly reviving entire portfolios of dormant web properties with it.

I would rather be in that second group. So I am.

What is next for the village

Every day, content-rich new articles. New topics, new images, new internal links. The archive deepens. The site grows. And I get to do what I have wanted to do since 1995, which is keep adding to this little corner of the web I have been quietly tending for three decades.

It turns out the trick was not finding more time. The trick was learning to direct a new kind of helper.

Welcome back to WorldVillage. The lights are on. The doors are open. There is going to be a lot more to read around here than there has been in a long, long time.

Come on in. Thirty years later and we’re still here.