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(This page will be really cool when it's done!! Check back soon!!)
WELCOME, Net Surfer!!!
You have reached the personal home page of Jeff Wilson, also known across the net as PROFESSOR DUMPSTER. Thanks for cruising the Information Superhighway and stopping by my little corner of Cyberspace!!!
I am a sixth-generation Texan and I am SUPER PUMPED to have this new thing called an Information Superhighway browser TODAY!! Can you believe this?? I am looking at PICTURES and TEXT on the same screen!! The future is NOW, folks!!! I am currently tinkering around with what they are calling "artificial intelligence" on my workstation. And before you ask, NO, it is not that Terminator stuff. Relax. It is just really neat programs that can do smart things. I think it is going to be HUGE in like 33 years! NEW!
♻ THE DUMPSTER PROJECT ♻ NEW! FUN!
This is the totally rad experiment that started it all!!! Back a few years ago, I moved into a DUMPSTER right behind the dorms at the university where I was a professor and lived there for ONE ENTIRE YEAR. A regular dumpster. The kind you throw your trash in. Except I SLEEP in it. You could say my real estate portfolio is... garbage. HA!
Why?? Because I wanted to prove that you can live sustainably in the smallest possible space and still be HAPPY. And guess what? The Washington Post says I told them it was the happiest I have ever been!! No rent! No utility bills! My commute is literally walking out of a dumpster onto campus! Less stuff = more life, people!!!
The Dumpster Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit STEM education platform. We won an HBCU Ford Corporation Community Sustainability Grant. We are teaching kids and adults that sustainability is not about sacrifice. It is about INGENUITY.
► Read: The Atlantic - "The Simple Life in a Dumpster" HOT!
► Visit The Dumpster Project Home Page
💻 MY STARTUP COMPANIES 💻
I have founded THREE technology startups!!!
► NO CAP (Y Combinator W23) HOT!
The FIRST artificial intelligence early-stage investor!! An AI-powered investor and founder support platform. The AI was trained on data from 50 YC alums and can wire a startup $100K in three minutes!! Acquired in March 2025, exactly one year to the day after launch!
► Read: AI Angel Investor "No Cap" Makes History WOW!
► The viral post that started it all
► JUPE (Y Combinator S21) NEW!
Off-grid volumetric shelters for 1.5 BILLION humans who lack adequate housing! Flat-packed, autonomous housing units. Just add land. Our seed round was led by Garry Tan of Initialized Capital, and we raised the only uncapped round in the entire YC batch!! Sold to our largest customer in 2024.
► Read: TechCrunch - "Jupe wants to solve for X" FUN!
► KASITA FUN!
The dumpster experiment was the direct inspiration for Kasita, my micro-housing startup! We built stackable smart micro-homes. Named one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies and won a SXSW Interactive Innovation Award. Sold to a tiny home hotel company in 2019.
► Read: Dezeen - "Kasita aims to solve US housing crisis" COOL!
★ THINGS I AM INTO ★
📷 LIVE DUMPSTER-CAM!!! 📷 NEW! LIVE!
Behold!! A LIVE feed of a garbage facility, streamed directly to your Netscape Navigator via the World Wide Web!! The future is here, people. This is the Metro South Transfer Station in Oregon City, OR. Real garbage. Real time. REAL COOL.
► Click here for the FULL SIZE live garbage cam!!
► BONUS: Miramar Landfill Live Cam (San Diego!)
🌐 MY TOTALLY RAD HOTLIST 🌐 FUN!
(These are my favorite stops on the Information Superhighway!!)
📟 BEEPER STUFF: Page me on my Motorola Bravo!! If you need to reach me between Usenet posts, hit my beeper. I'll find a payphone and call you back. This is way faster than waiting for a reply on alt.sustainability.dumpster-living. Or you can send me one of those new SkyTel two-way pages. The future of beeping is here, people!!
✉ ELECTRONIC MAIL: You can also send me a message through this wild new thing called "e-mail"!! It goes through the phone lines and shows up on my screen!! Drop me a line at j.gaines.wilson@gmail.com. I check it every time I log on to my Sun workstation!
★ AS SEEN ON ★
ABC News ★ CNBC ★ Washington Post ★ Grist ★ TechCrunch ★ Fast Company ★ World Economic Forum ★ NPR / Living on Earth ★ Sierra Club ★ Austin Chronicle ★ Texas Monthly ★ Upworthy ★ Futurism
🏆 AWARDS & HONORS 🏆
★ University of Texas System Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award (biggest teaching $ in the USA!!)
★ Distinguished Alumnus, Texas State University
★ SXSW Interactive Innovation Award (Kasita)
★ Fast Company Most Innovative Companies (Kasita)
★ HBCU Ford Corporation Community Sustainability Grant
★ Only uncapped round in Y Combinator S21 batch (Jupe)
OG STUFF
Relics, ruins, and rabbit holes from before the web ate everything. Some still breathing. Some just ghosts with URLs.
Protocols That Refuse To Die
The First Website
Shout out to Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who in 1991 quietly uploaded a page at CERN and rewired civilization. In internet years that page is a century old. It is still there, untouched, like a cave painting with a URL.
Dream Job, 1993 Edition
If I could punch a timecard anywhere in 1993, it would be the MIT AI Lab. Minsky's house. The place where the word "hacker" meant something holy. It folded into CSAIL in 2003, but the original site is frozen in the Wayback Machine like a fly in amber.
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📝 SIGN MY GUESTBOOK!!! 📝 NEW!
Please sign my guestbook so I know you stopped by!! It really makes my day. Tell me where you are surfing from!!
This page was hand-coded in HTML by WebMaster Jeff using Pico on a Sun workstation.
Made with 100% recycled electrons. No GIFs were harmed in the making of this page.
April 22, 1993
The day NCSA Mosaic 1.0 was released. The day the Web changed forever.
The day a professor dreamed of living in a dumpster.
You are surfing the Information Superhighway. Buckle up.