Saturday, February 10, 2007
my first website
Well, thanks to the magic of the Wayback Machine at Archive.org I went back in time to find my very first website. I thought it had been lost forever in time due to my carelessness.
I designed this puppy in 1996. I was in 9th grade in high school. Granted it was made through Geocites' free webpage service, but even back then I was still hand-coding HTML. It was more along the lines of what people do now on Myspace, just some copying and pasting, but it was my first headlong dive into the web.
Now, before I give you the link I have to preface it with some explanation. I was a weird little hormone filled kid back then (as I'm sure we all were as freshman in high school). I also had a pretty eccentric group of friends. We were all very creative and we probably like that weird artsy beatnik clique you see in Hollywood movies. We were really into the Beatles.
So, as a budding little creative, I wrote a lot of poetry. I put the collection of my poetry into this website. So, you have to remember I was writing it when I was an overly-emotional hormone-driven nerdy-hippie-wannabe.
Adding to that I must also address the fact that I had an unhealthy obsessive pubescent celebrity crush on Dominique Moceanu. Like, it was bad, and probably a little creepy. But I'm over it now. So, just to warn you there's a weird little online celeb-worship section. I was a little creeped out remembering that myself. I just the one saving grace of all this was I had a crush on a girl, despite all my gay poem writing. Haha!
Ok, so without mush further ado, here's (most of) my first webpage. Theres some images that got lost in the time-travel, but most the good stuff is there.
I designed this puppy in 1996. I was in 9th grade in high school. Granted it was made through Geocites' free webpage service, but even back then I was still hand-coding HTML. It was more along the lines of what people do now on Myspace, just some copying and pasting, but it was my first headlong dive into the web.
Now, before I give you the link I have to preface it with some explanation. I was a weird little hormone filled kid back then (as I'm sure we all were as freshman in high school). I also had a pretty eccentric group of friends. We were all very creative and we probably like that weird artsy beatnik clique you see in Hollywood movies. We were really into the Beatles.
So, as a budding little creative, I wrote a lot of poetry. I put the collection of my poetry into this website. So, you have to remember I was writing it when I was an overly-emotional hormone-driven nerdy-hippie-wannabe.
Adding to that I must also address the fact that I had an unhealthy obsessive pubescent celebrity crush on Dominique Moceanu. Like, it was bad, and probably a little creepy. But I'm over it now. So, just to warn you there's a weird little online celeb-worship section. I was a little creeped out remembering that myself. I just the one saving grace of all this was I had a crush on a girl, despite all my gay poem writing. Haha!
Ok, so without mush further ado, here's (most of) my first webpage. Theres some images that got lost in the time-travel, but most the good stuff is there.
Labels: Dominique Moceanu, Early Websites, Geocities, Poetry, Wayback Machine
