I’ve been developing websites for over 10 years now. Fortunately, my earliest work is safely hidden away. I’m sure it include blink tags and animated gifs. I could probably even put an email directly on the site without getting spammed. From the first “web page” in 1996 it was probably another year before I really made another web page, but I really don’t know. I don’t know if I was hooked yet, but it wouldn’t be long before I was captured by the ease, simplicity and power of publishing on the web. I blame the never finishing part on the ease. So, for the first few years I would just spend most of my time surfing and seeing what was out there.
My first own website highlights came in 1998 was serving up mp3s from my dorm room at Georgia Tech. At the peak, I was the number one search result on Altavista for “beatles mp3″. The moment I saw the high rank, I took things down before I got kicked out of school. Thanks to radiohead mp3s, the only artifact left from that site is having a great friend in Rome, Italy whom my wife and I visited on our honeymoon.
As far as a record of my earliest “work”, I found this one, but couldn’t get anything to load, although apparently it was just a bunch of random quotes with a dollar sign background: abysss.com 1999. Yes, I added and extra s. I always seemed to be the last to go after the good domain names. Why didn’t I just get youtube when I could?
This is by far my single [greatest] unfinished website: gtwreck.com. If web.archive.org didn’t exist, I wouldn’t even have a record of this site. There are elements of twitter in some of the earlier iterations. I look back at these iterations and just wish that I could have kept things going. Now, with unfinished website, there are no more excuses. This website will always be unfinished and hopefully it will always be up.
The main things I hope to do here are to bring my prior work back from the dead and more importantly showcase my latest stuff. All with the caveat that it’s never finished. Oh, and hover over that lightbulb to see the light.
Tags: Music, Old School