I admit it.
I just lost some time today.
“Why?” you ask?
I just click around this fun Tumblr project:
Web Designers’ First Websites
Do you remember your first website?
I think mine was hosted on Geocities—ahem—and it consisted of a collection of “funnies” and favorite websites that was never updated.
None the less, it was my first venture in the wild wide world web.
About a year later, I had my hands on the radio station website I worked at—using Corel’s web designer software. This was the beginning of the Internet boom—back when Yahoo! was something awesome—and I’ve been working on websites ever since.
I never sought out working on the web. It just kind of happened.
Do you remember your first website? Tell us about it!
If any of you happen to have screenshots, I dare you to share.
In the meantime, go have some fun browsing these web designer’s first websites.
April says
I have one that is still up cause the client hasn’t wanted it down yet, or because they totally forgot it was out there. LOL http://pricelessphoto.tripod.com/
Eric Dye says
Oh, my. That’s amazing. 😀
April says
I reminded him of it today and he said, “You mean, the web traffic on there hasn’t shut it down yet?!”
Eric Dye says
LOL!
Steven Gliebe says
Geocities circa 1997, about a video game. It was a matter of typing HTML straight into a textarea. Remember those Geocities “addresses”? They were like 400 miles long.
This was before Google! Back when Macs were super uncool.
Eric Dye says
Seriously long. And yeah, “Power PC” LOL!
Matt Brier says
Unix server at UofL the summer of ’94 when I was teaching myself this ‘new fangled’ world wide web programming. Just a web document(or maybe a gopher doc), a UNIX text editor, and my unlimited imagination.
Its unfortunate I didn’t stay with it more than I have. I could see it, along with InfoSec, would be the next big things, but didn’t take the initiative to learn it better.
Eric Dye says
Hard core!