10 Years of HTML
Circa ’96
Sorry no pictures of anything because the hardrive in my computer stopped working! I think the head is scratched so there’s no way to retrieve any of the data. I lost some photos that I took over Christmas, but everything else is backed up! Phew!! I have been visiting Cambridge and went to see some Jazz with Matt the pilot.
Whilst rebuilding machines I found some old old CDs which contained stuff from early 2000. On one of the CDs was a backup of websites I had written. In an obscure folder dev/html/historical/backups or something along those lines, I found a zip of my first ever website! It was written around January 1996 at the young age of 15. Which makes it around 10 years old this month!
I also had a ‘journal’ on the site, which we would call a ‘blog’ now adays with an opening entry of February 11th 1996, where I talk about it being cold and having to play ‘fake muggings’ in the village to entertain ourselves.
I’ve made the website available online again as its really a piece of internet history from the very early days of websites (actually I think mine was quite advanced, I had Javascript and Framesets!). The navigations is complex to say the least, and finding all the content is almost impossible.