>> O hai!
>
>> 1995 called, and they want their website back.
>
> Ah, the times when you created a webpage on your university account
> by launching a text editor (often in a terminal emulator... if not
> even an actual VT terminal) and then just wrote HTML (1.0) by hand...
> No graphics, not much of a layout... just text and some individual
> images.

I wrote my university website in Notepad.

You know, the default text editor in Windows 95?

And tested it in Netscape Navigator, because IE tended to break all my 
markup.

> I still remember the time when most people thought that having a
> "links" page (ie. a page that contained nothing but links to other
> wegpages, often of friends) in their homepage was cool and hip.
> Heck, even I had one at some point.

I can still remember "Pam's Private Parts". Yes, that is what one of my 
colleges named her site. Not that it contained anything remotely 
interesting. About the most exciting thing was the price list from the 
student union bar (along with comments on the various drinks such as 
"nat's piss if you ask me!"). The table was headed by the comment "this 
is why people become students!!!"

(Oh how I love excessive punctuation. And by "love", I of course mean 
some antonym of that word...)

> This kind of thing has gone kind of cyclic. In the mid-90's only
> a handful of people, mostly university students, could have their
> own homepage on the WWW. By the 2000's more and more people both
> got internet connections at their homes and personal webpages on
> their service provider's server. Nowadays almost nobody has a
> personal webpage anymore, instead having just a bunch of accounts
> on social media websites... which often contain little more than
> personal info and links to other pages.
>
> Oh, the irony.

Few people have a personal web site, but lots of us have a personal 
blog... ;-)

Is it ironic that I'm *paying* for a website, but I haven't actually 
*used* it for about 8 years now? :-S

Post a reply to this message