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What are other folks' starting dates?
Sat down with some friends after work (we were all computer and/or games freaks) to learn HTML - seemed too simple (we were used to C++) to actually work. Our group effort went live Christmas Eve 1994. My first "all my own" site went up while watching the New Years fireworks: very early 01 Jan 1995.
The world felt so very new then. Clicking from a site in Canada to one in Australia to one in Italy ... somehow the Star Trek transporter seemed just around the corner ...
I believed in Yahoo and Netscape (thanks guys) but never thought Amazon had a hope ... so my crystal ball isn't perfect ...
Haven't done a personal site since 1997, only for clients; lots and lots of clients: thank you each and every one.
Maybe it's time ... 10-years? Are you sure? Seems like yesterday.
Had some time on my handsand wondered if I could do one of this web site thingys, went out that day bought tons of magazines with free editors.
The rest is history.
Later in the year I stumbled across a site called Webmasterworld, being on night shift I sat up and went through nearly every thread.
havnt been back since though....
It was an information site for a doctor who ran a clinic specialising in - ahem - ED (erectile dysfunction).
You can imagine the content...
You can imagine the content...
LOL! err, no thanks.
1998/9 - set up site for ex Leeds uni students to get back into contact with one another - it was crude (I had to personally update it from form requests!) and somebody else was working on the very same idea with few more resources at their disposal and rather a larger business plan ;)
I didn't get my own HTML online until some time in 1995. And I didn't make a personal home page until quite recently, like, 2001.
the WayBack Machine only goes back to 1996, that's the best I can do to see my old sites, most of which are defunct.
Html is a tricky thing
i am ashamed to say that my first one was may 2003. i sure am slow to catch on.
Ahh don't be.
The only reason I started so early was simply the random accident of birth. My dad was...well a very technical person and so as part of his field he stayed uptodate on new technology(and help develop a little of it too allthough relating to a different indistry) he had friends building pcs in there basments and garages back when that was the only way to get one.
I remember the first one he brought home(I still have an ad for it with Alan Greenspan(complete with hair) touting how it was a great tool for the stock market. I also still have the computer in it's origional box.. but that's a different story...
Anyway I guess my generation was one of the first that "grew-up" with a computer in the home.
Although I can still remember the amazment that surrounded them then due to the fact that they were so new.
I'll never forget the feeling when I saw my first mouse on display...or dad's behavior twords it... he looked like kid in a candy store.
ok enough reminising.. i gotta get back to work.
Sarah
It's good real estate though - the current owner could get quite some money if he'd sell it. But for historical reasons he lets it online.
