I am looking for information on an old web site that existed in the
mid-90's.  It consisted of reports from a guy that lived in a trailer
with his crotchety grandfather or uncle.  The site was all text.  The
writer mispelled words terribly.  This was definitely some type of
fictional, humor web site.  The reports of the latest happenings were
always hilarious.  Does anyone remember this or know how to view it
again?

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 31 Oct 2002 11:58 PST

Does this photo look familiar? If so, I've found an archive of your
trailer trash saga. The original site is now defunct.

http://www.mortalwombat.com/Special/TrailerPark.jpg

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Clarification of Question by enricofermi-ga on 31 Oct 2002 12:18 PST

I do not recognize the picture you found.  When I used to view the
site, it was all text with no pixs or artwork at all.  However it did
use a large font and some color on certain words.  My impression was
that the site was authored by someone in Austin and that the fictional
guy who lived in the trailer lived near Austin.

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 31 Oct 2002 12:24 PST

Thanks for responding so quickly. Any further info you can remember
would be helpful. Sometimes even the tiniest clue can spark a
researcher's memory!

The photo to which I linked was from a funny site of a fellow who
supposedly lived in a "trayler park" in "Ariazona" with his oddball
family. Evidently there are a lot of mock trailer-trash sites out
there on the Web.

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Clarification of Question by enricofermi-ga on 31 Oct 2002 13:26 PST

That sounds very close, but I'm pretty sure it was not Arizona.  I
don't think the main character lived in a trailer park.  His trailer
was just somewhere out in the boonies.  For some reason I always
associate that character with Harry Knowles of Aint It Cool News.

These were first person accounts which sometimes contained vitriolic
rants on different issues.  The grandfather character was outrageous
and continualy abused the writer.  I'll keep trying to remember
details.

If you got to http://mytrailerpark.com/ you might find that the text
has been updated, or modified and pictures added.  It sounds like
similar text but is much more current.  You probably could write to
the webmaster and see if they were responsible for the text you
remember.

I'm not a registered researcher, but I think I've found what you're
looking for:
Walter Miller's Home page is still up, but not in the same place it
used to be:
http://waltermillerhomepage.com/walter.htm
ABOUT ME
Im orignally from California but now I live in rural Texas-a lonly
area 2 hours from the nearest big city. Ive been here since last
December. I moved here because Iam only 20 years old and divvorced and
I owe the whole world money. So my family takes over my bills and
debits in exhange for me to look after and take care of my granfather.
Lets just say I have to haul him up on the crapper whenever he has to
go-which isnt often and contributs to him bein cranky most of the
time.

It used to be on Geocities:
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/9179/walter.htm

Search strategy:
I figured people might be talking about this, so I went to Google
Groups and searched for: trailer web funny grandfather
They were talking about it, oddly enough, at alt.coffee:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=trailer+web+funny+grandfather&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=julianv-0508992314370001%40pool-209-138-146-98.bltm.grid.net&rnum=4