Personal 08 Apr 2005 10:59 am
Ten years ago…
… in a country far, far away, I was busy setting up my first home page and putting it online. It went “live” ten years ago yesterday (or, technically, today, as I was then in GMT-8), so I can probably say that this is my “online birthday”. On the other hand, I was active online before that, of course (e-mail, newsgroups, even some web browsing); so make that my “web birthday”.
I still have the original HTML files, but most of the external links on them do not work anymore; in fact, it was then hosted on http://www.best.com/~wilson/, which is also long gone. You can see on the right a thumbnail of what it looked like then. No, that picture on the upper left corner is not me; it is Macgyver’s (and now Stargate’s) Richard Dean Anderson. If my memory serves me right, I switched to a photo of David Duchovny after a few months, and later I changed the whole layout so that there wasn’t a photo on the front page anymore.
So, well, happy birthday to me!
