@awk Where’s the MIDI file looping in the background?
My first personal webpage way back in high school had, like, 20 intro pages you had to click through to get to any actual content, with tiled kaleidoscopic backgrounds, garish colors, a different MIDI on every page, and each page with its own unique gimmicky JavaScript, DHTML (remember that stuff?), or late '90s CSS. The actual content was just jokes I’d copied from other people’s websites.
Took one class on it in high school. It was actually a lot of fun but I never did anything with it after that. Could be a good skill to pick back up though.
@givemeyoursoul Excellent, though I think we should be beyond shitting on jQuery load times by now — assuming you’re using a common CDN, everyone’s got that shit cached already.
I love making my personal work pretty, but a lot of beauty is to be found in elegance, and elegance goes hand in hand with accessibility. Accessibility is largely my profession.
@givemeyoursoul Saw the web address when hovering my cursor over it and didn’t want to click. Is it safe for work? Don’t care about cuss words, just no sessy pictures.
A crappy family tree on a geocities page as a bonus project to pass a history class I’d consistently ditched in high school. I said it was a pointless class, and proceeded to prove it by only showing up for tests and acing them. The principal gave me the website task as a deal, I think just to hold back the teacher. She (totally justifiably) hated me. I was a cocky little punk. Kind of wish they’d flunked me then. Would have been cheaper than learning my lesson in college,which I did.
When my home internet connection upgraded from 128kbps ISDN to a 6M/640K ADSL business class circuit, I set up a DEC Alphaserver 600 5/333 with VMS, Apache, MySQL, Java, PHP, and all the trimmings and started learning webstuff. We called them VAMP servers to distinguish from Linux based LAMP. I actually ran a blog for about a year on Joomla on that box, but had to give it up (lack of time), and also wrote, rewrote, and tweaked a fairly pure html site for a few more years on that box. With a firewall in place it was pretty well protected and it ran everything I threw at it. Good experience, but both time and cost (the server burned 250 watts idling, 375 active, plus pumping out heat, and the ADSL service was nearly $100/month) forced me to end it.
I miss it. Using a hosted service is better in many ways but its not ‘mine’. Meh.
Somehow this is probably my favorite that I’ve made. I’m not sure I’ll ever make another fully hand-coded page; there’s so much that goes into making it all responsive and accessible and search engine optimized that it’s easier to just build off some CMS where that’s all been done in advance.
Why would I want to build a website when there are plenty of them out there already? Too many in fact. The market is saturated and then some. I already can’t find what I want out there at times. Why on earth would I make a bad situation worse? Google already says there are over to million results to my more recent search. I will be dead of old age before I look at them all. Nope. The one I did make using @givemeyoursoul’s link (link is on the bottom of the page givemeyoursoul provided), I didn’t save so I wouldn’t be adding to google’s website hoarding problem. (smirk)
I used MS Publisher and comic sans (sorry I never claimed to be an artist or a good person).
It lived on long after I stopped paying for it. (Changed ISPs, back when the ISP had hosting included in the price of internet). I gave up the URL a year or 2 ago.
Gone now.
Often when I submit for a juried show they ask for a website, so I made one for my art and hobbies using Frontpage. It got hard to find a host for a Frontpage based site so I made one on Angelfire. Although it’s been decades since I updated it, it’s still there. I visit it from time to time to salvage files as there are things on the site that I have lost due to hard drive fails.
I manually edited my website on the local freenet years ago and yes, IT HAD FRAMES!!! Also dynamic mouseover graphics thingies. You moused over an icon and it replaced the static .gif with an animated .gif. I think I edited it with VIM in the terminal, and Notepad on my desktop (uploaded after that). I tried Netscape’s graphical editor once, but it added so much metadata and tags and crap that it inflated my concise, efficient coding threefold. Went back to VIM.
Well it was a Mechwarrior 2 fan site instead of Diablo and I never bothered to publish it because the content was 100% redundant with a dozen other sites at the time, but I did build it.
Always told myself if I ever had content that I felt was worth providing, I would build a web page for it. I guess it says something that I have never bothered to build a website that I published ;-p
@PocketBrain very true. Or if it did, I would hate to see how many redundant geocities websites would have ensued. I just felt it better not to contribute to the problem of web congestion back then.
Since then search engines have gotten better and it is no longer the issue it once was, but back then, finding non-redundant content was often irritatingly difficult.
Built my first website on GeoCities, back in the day. It was a terrible MST3k fansite. I’ve done it as a hobby for a while, doing a little freelance work in college. Probably the highest profile thing I did was my buddy’s record label site. That one is still up at https://web.archive.org/web/20060821195934/http://www.pangaearecordings.com/
@Pantheist My three departed canine packmates all have memorial sites but they are just ‘one page sites’ from the registrar, so I only did the one image, captions, and body text.
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@awk Where’s the MIDI file looping in the background?
My first personal webpage way back in high school had, like, 20 intro pages you had to click through to get to any actual content, with tiled kaleidoscopic backgrounds, garish colors, a different MIDI on every page, and each page with its own unique gimmicky JavaScript, DHTML (remember that stuff?), or late '90s CSS. The actual content was just jokes I’d copied from other people’s websites.
@awk I can’t find a working example of the original website, so have a youtube vid
I’ve been developing for the web since before Hotmail was a thing.
Does a BBS in the '90’s count?
@DaveInSoCal No, but it’s equally complex. That was ANSI and lots of menu editing, web is lots of angle brackets and tags.
@DaveInSoCal
Fido?
Took one class on it in high school. It was actually a lot of fun but I never did anything with it after that. Could be a good skill to pick back up though.
Yep. It still exists somewhere. Every few years I’ll search for it again for a chuckle.
I even wrote a custom CMS once upon a time.
I learned I’m not a programmer.
Hey guys, Relevant
Amazingly, I read this seconds before seeing this poll.
@givemeyoursoul This is magnificent.
@givemeyoursoul Excellent, though I think we should be beyond shitting on jQuery load times by now — assuming you’re using a common CDN, everyone’s got that shit cached already.
I love making my personal work pretty, but a lot of beauty is to be found in elegance, and elegance goes hand in hand with accessibility. Accessibility is largely my profession.
@brhfl kids these days! in my time you had to code your JavaScript by hand, in the snow, etc etc
@givemeyoursoul Saw the web address when hovering my cursor over it and didn’t want to click. Is it safe for work? Don’t care about cuss words, just no sessy pictures.
@hems79 no pictures.
A crappy family tree on a geocities page as a bonus project to pass a history class I’d consistently ditched in high school. I said it was a pointless class, and proceeded to prove it by only showing up for tests and acing them. The principal gave me the website task as a deal, I think just to hold back the teacher. She (totally justifiably) hated me. I was a cocky little punk. Kind of wish they’d flunked me then. Would have been cheaper than learning my lesson in college,which I did.
@simplersimon Very self enlightened.
When my home internet connection upgraded from 128kbps ISDN to a 6M/640K ADSL business class circuit, I set up a DEC Alphaserver 600 5/333 with VMS, Apache, MySQL, Java, PHP, and all the trimmings and started learning webstuff. We called them VAMP servers to distinguish from Linux based LAMP. I actually ran a blog for about a year on Joomla on that box, but had to give it up (lack of time), and also wrote, rewrote, and tweaked a fairly pure html site for a few more years on that box. With a firewall in place it was pretty well protected and it ran everything I threw at it. Good experience, but both time and cost (the server burned 250 watts idling, 375 active, plus pumping out heat, and the ADSL service was nearly $100/month) forced me to end it.
I miss it. Using a hosted service is better in many ways but its not ‘mine’. Meh.
I prefer writing smartwatch OSes.
Somehow this is probably my favorite that I’ve made. I’m not sure I’ll ever make another fully hand-coded page; there’s so much that goes into making it all responsive and accessible and search engine optimized that it’s easier to just build off some CMS where that’s all been done in advance.
@jqubed lol
Why would I want to build a website when there are plenty of them out there already? Too many in fact. The market is saturated and then some. I already can’t find what I want out there at times. Why on earth would I make a bad situation worse? Google already says there are over to million results to my more recent search. I will be dead of old age before I look at them all. Nope. The one I did make using @givemeyoursoul’s link (link is on the bottom of the page givemeyoursoul provided), I didn’t save so I wouldn’t be adding to google’s website hoarding problem. (smirk)
@Kidsandliz
I did a few when I went back to school and then I did a resume site that only exists on Wayback machine now.
I made webpages and the only editor was notepad… they looked it too!!!
@sohmageek I used notepad, I thought mine looked pretty spiffy.
@cranky1950 my calendars with nested tables were spiffy. Especially given that it was in the late 90’s
Back when I had a job… It is now maintained by a group in India.
I used MS Publisher and comic sans (sorry I never claimed to be an artist or a good person).
It lived on long after I stopped paying for it. (Changed ISPs, back when the ISP had hosting included in the price of internet). I gave up the URL a year or 2 ago.
Gone now.
I did. It looked like poop. I am not a designer.
Often when I submit for a juried show they ask for a website, so I made one for my art and hobbies using Frontpage. It got hard to find a host for a Frontpage based site so I made one on Angelfire. Although it’s been decades since I updated it, it’s still there. I visit it from time to time to salvage files as there are things on the site that I have lost due to hard drive fails.
I manually edited my website on the local freenet years ago and yes, IT HAD FRAMES!!! Also dynamic mouseover graphics thingies. You moused over an icon and it replaced the static .gif with an animated .gif. I think I edited it with VIM in the terminal, and Notepad on my desktop (uploaded after that). I tried Netscape’s graphical editor once, but it added so much metadata and tags and crap that it inflated my concise, efficient coding threefold. Went back to VIM.
@PocketBrain Vim’s the best.
/image spider web site
Sure. Latest example. www.deweys.com
I forgot about this one. https://www.sexwax.com/ just launched. You know you want some surfboard wax.
@ThatsHeadly Ah, yes, I remember guys in high school buying this. I don’t think they even surfed; they just wanted to say they had Sex Wax.
Well it was a Mechwarrior 2 fan site instead of Diablo and I never bothered to publish it because the content was 100% redundant with a dozen other sites at the time, but I did build it.
Always told myself if I ever had content that I felt was worth providing, I would build a web page for it. I guess it says something that I have never bothered to build a website that I published ;-p
@infornography That never stopped anybody before you.
@PocketBrain very true. Or if it did, I would hate to see how many redundant geocities websites would have ensued. I just felt it better not to contribute to the problem of web congestion back then.
Since then search engines have gotten better and it is no longer the issue it once was, but back then, finding non-redundant content was often irritatingly difficult.
I built one in the 90’s.
Black background, white text, cause the '90’s. We were all captive to the decade, I fear.
Bigger font, but this link will give you the idea of what it was:
http://txti.es/jlojp
Yes, but they all suck
Hello World
Built my first website on GeoCities, back in the day. It was a terrible MST3k fansite. I’ve done it as a hobby for a while, doing a little freelance work in college. Probably the highest profile thing I did was my buddy’s record label site. That one is still up at https://web.archive.org/web/20060821195934/http://www.pangaearecordings.com/
No, but I am going to need one in the future. New thread will come then.
I made one for my cat using notepad.
@Pantheist
<meow catnoise="meow">meow</meow>@Pantheist My three departed canine packmates all have memorial sites but they are just ‘one page sites’ from the registrar, so I only did the one image, captions, and body text.
Yes. I did an online degree awhile back. Building a complex website was a requirement, since the program was entirely paperless.