Celebrating Ten Years in 2008!
Tuesday, January 1. 2008
It's true: version 1.0 of this site went live on Friday, 8 May 1998 at "http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/4218". It was before Google existed, before Windows 98 was released, and the "Y2K Bug" was going to be the next major crisis.
My knowledge of HTML was rather slim at the time, and I lacked a digital camera or scanner, so the single-page "site" had to make due with text, several pictures I found online, and some digital drawings that I had done. The latter included a crude blueprint of my diorama that I had created in MS Paint:
The site quickly grew, and by the end of that year I had a (very) rough approximation of what the site is today. I went through several styles and upgrades over the years since then: the overall focus of the site has become better, PHP replaced HTML for ease of updating, this Weblog replaced the old Guestbook, and so on.
I've got a few things planned to add to the site in celebration of the anniversary, including a look back at various milestones for the site and for the web in general...so be sure to check back often to see what's new!
My knowledge of HTML was rather slim at the time, and I lacked a digital camera or scanner, so the single-page "site" had to make due with text, several pictures I found online, and some digital drawings that I had done. The latter included a crude blueprint of my diorama that I had created in MS Paint:
The site quickly grew, and by the end of that year I had a (very) rough approximation of what the site is today. I went through several styles and upgrades over the years since then: the overall focus of the site has become better, PHP replaced HTML for ease of updating, this Weblog replaced the old Guestbook, and so on.
I've got a few things planned to add to the site in celebration of the anniversary, including a look back at various milestones for the site and for the web in general...so be sure to check back often to see what's new!
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