So I couldn't sleep last night. This always happens when I finally get caught up on the sleep I routinely miss during the week due to the hectic pace of working two jobs.

One A.M. saw me sitting at my computer, halfheartedly picking at a few things on my to-do list. I decided to distract myself by working on a few areas of angiemckaig.com that have been sadly neglected: my work area, the about page. Of course I didn't finish most of it, which means it will be a niggling burr in my mind until I get time to finish it. The about page is updated with some stuff you really don't care about, but hell, it's a vanity site, so I allowed myself to be vain. The work stuff still resides on my home computer, unfinished, so nothing new to see there. Yet.

I did, however, finally upload something I've been meaning to share with all of you for ages, strictly for the laugh factor: circa1995.

Behold, my very first ever attempts at HTML. I took my Netscape 1.x bookmarks list back in 1995 and tried to categorize and "design" (I use that term very, very loosely) some web pages. Other than a few tweaks to make the image links work (there were many ~1 endings to the file names), everything you see is as it was in 1995, and as I intended it to be back then. You will note the many "under construction signs". It was a work in progress, never finished. Some things never change.

It is loud. It is a visual assault on the senses. It uses "buttons and bars" that I haven't seen in ages. Really, it's a perfect example of the kinds of pages a whole bunch of people were making back in 1995. And as a result, I can't hate it too much. It garners sweet nostalgia in me.

The code, surprisingly, doesn't look too bad other than the incredibly annoying upper case tags. Not that these were very complex pages. But the file names (some of which have spaces in them), the extensions (all .htm) and other crimes against nature exist, for your amusement. Particularly amusing is the file structure, which I'll leave for you to discover - old Netscape users will remember this structure well.

And the links, of course, for the most part don't work. There are some that do, but a great many that have gone the way of the dodo bird some time in the past nine years. Particularly amusing is the incredible proliferation of addresses that included a tilde. In those days, free space on university or company servers was one of the only ways to have a web site for the great unwashed masses. And back then, the standard was to use a tilde. Thank goodness we evolved past this point!

Nuff said. Enjoy.

posted on 2004.03.22 at 09:31 AM

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