Rogue Science was built from years of hard work and painstaking research by the hands of one dedicated scientist, Jack Diamond. That's not my real name; it's a nom de plume, a pen name I use on the Internet. My unconventional views of copyrights and the evils of the publishing industry could make it difficult for me to get a job with those very same evil publishers, so I use a pseudonym to preserve my pseudo-innocence. I can best effect change from within. Viva La Resistance!

On July 4, 1997 a simple website with too many animated gifs and a bad color scheme was released onto the wild frontier of the Internet. Megalomania's Explosives and Stuff, named after an inside joke from my days at OSU, used material from my personal collection of laboratory syntheses of explosives that I called "The Paper," itself written using material obtained from the OSU Science and Engineering Library.

When I first began to search the Internet for explosives information, I was quite disappointed at the lack of results. There were no websites providing practical, useful, or factually correct information on how to make explosives. There were no websites providing practical, useful, or factually correct information on how to make anything.

My foray into web design was prompted by the conclusion others could benefit from my hard work mining the few precious gems of scientific knowledge from the papery caverns of the library. I built my website to be a reflection of what I wanted to see in all websites: Full of content, completely free, no advertisements or other useless marketing, well written, and informative.

I have never advertised my website, or submitted links to search engines. I didn't know how, or even that I should, optimize my site for search engines. Because I had content, the search engines, and visitors, found me. Build it and they will come has always been my philosophy. And come they did.

My first website home was with the free host geocities. There were many hosts after that. Free webspace providers have a tendency to boot clients for any reason or no reason. Any website dealing with explosives will get the boot sooner rather than later. After being booted from geocities I landed at fortunecity, then went to xoom, and finally to virtualave. The problem with free hosts is you get what you pay for. If you actually use their resources, you get the boot. The site was getting too popular to rely on an unreliable free host. With the free ride over, I purchased my own domain, www.roguesci.org.

Around the spring of 2000 I redesigned the website. I removed the flaming background and animated graphics (I am partially color blind, so color aesthetic is not my forte) and created a clean, professional look. I renamed the site "Megalomania's Controversial Chem Lab" to reflect the controversial nature of my information. The appearance may have changed, but the core philosophy of free, high quality scientific information, double checked for accuracy, presented without advertisements, remained the same.

Rogue Science has persevered and gained popularity for the entirety of the 21st century. Not many current websites can make that claim. Entropy has taken its toll, so certain areas of the site have languished over the years. A website of this nature, given my personality type, is a work with no end in sight. My slogan is, "the more work I do, the more work I decide to do." This means for each project or goal I complete, several new projects or goals are added.

I do not seek popularity, notoriety, infamy, or celebrity. I seek to educate, inform, entertain, and enlighten. There have been millions of visitors to Rogue Science over the years. I have received numerous emails of praise from teachers, professors, scientists, soldiers, and ordinary citizens. Surprisingly, I receive no hate mail. I surmise this is due to excellent writing, accurate portrayal of factual information, and emphasizing the science of explosives over the application of explosives.

This is Rogue Science, your science, uncensored and free.