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Born in 91, I was the perfect age to be obsessed with Harry Potter. When I was around ten, an older kid in the neighborhood helped me make a Harry Potter themed

Born in 91, I was the perfect age to be obsessed with Harry Potter. When I was around ten, an older kid in the neighborhood helped me make a Harry Potter themed website using FrontPage (the Express version I think it was named). Small, random event that end up having a big effect on my life. My hobbies, what&where I chose to study, the friends I got there etc. I can trace back to this.

Svip 8y ago
Oh man, I had a similar experience around 2000. I built a Danish website about Goldeneye 64 in FrontPage. The first website I ever made. It used frames, but I feel it was quite pleasing on the eyes, because I avoided a lot of the 'fancy effects' that was common for the time. I'll admit, being born in 87, most of the site was simply copied from other websites about the game, and translated to Danish. So it was a decent exercise - particularly for someone dyslexic as me - to both built a website and translate from English to Danish. If only I knew where that website ended up...
- benibela 8y ago
  Born in 89, I made a webpage for my mother at that time. She still likes it :/ Check the generator tag on the frameset page http://www.roswithavanderzander.de/index_EN.htm http://www.roswithavanderzander.de/index_EN.htm
  - egeozcan 8y ago
    It can use some minimal styling but much better than loading 100MB to see less content. I say great job :)
  - scarface74 8y ago
    It loads fast. It’s easy to navigate. With just a little bit of work, it would be more appealing than most “modern” web page.
  - elliotpage 8y ago
    This page is great. It loads instantly, shows you the content up front, has clear navigation, and has clear contrast between elements. Also, it has frames, which I honestly miss even though I am glad we have moved past them.
    - Atheros 8y ago
      Why did and does everyone hate frames so much? Do they not have their place even on modern sites sometimes? (Even if they aren't technically frames?) The top bar of Google Docs is a visual frame and it seems appropriate to me.
    - Izkata 8y ago
      And frames have a feature I love that's almost never implemented nowadays: You can click+drag the border to freely resize the frames and see the content better.
  - abricot 8y ago
    I really dig your mom's erh.. organic art.
- dzhiurgis 8y ago
  web.archive.org supports keyword search, you can try find it that way.
ddtaylor 8y ago
Similar story for me, but with a Dragonball Z fan site. Internet, I'm sorry.
- ddnb 8y ago
  Made a Pokemon fan site, must have been 9 or something, I didn't know how to link to other pages, so everything was one page and links worked via anchors...
  - robryan 8y ago
    I attempted to make a pokemon battle system in front page by linking pages and hard coding each action.
    - blairbeckwith 8y ago
      Oh man, me too. I couldn’t figure out anything about dynamic web pages except that I needed a host with “cgi-bin support”. I wanted to build a Neopets alternative, and when I couldn’t figure out how to do anything dynamic, I figured I could just build out a new page for every combination of variables that could change. I was like, 7, so my math skills didn’t really allow me to understand the scope of the number of pages that would be required. But god damn if I didn’t have a blast trying.
- jle17 8y ago
  I made a Nintendo fan site with FrontPage 2000 (well the first version was made with Word which made atrocious HTML but I migrated quickly). It was complete with all the expected features of the time, including an autoplaying MIDI Pokémon background music, Comic Sans everywhere and 3D rotating text gifs made with Xara X3D. Oh and moving text in the status bar. I'm not sorry at all though.
- rangibaby 8y ago
  Me too. Midis and comet cursor. Sorry
- amyjess 8y ago
pmtarantino 8y ago
Are you sure you are not me? We have the same past it seems.
elboru 8y ago
Wow, I would have loved to be friends with all the guys in this thread. I didn't have a single friend with this kind of interests, none of my friends would be interested in creating stuff instead of just consuming it.

Svip 8y ago

Oh man, I had a similar experience around 2000. I built a Danish website about Goldeneye 64 in FrontPage. The first website I ever made. It used frames, but I feel it was quite pleasing on the eyes, because I avoided a lot of the 'fancy effects' that was common for the time. I'll admit, being born in 87, most of the site was simply copied from other websites about the game, and translated to Danish. So it was a decent exercise - particularly for someone dyslexic as me - to both built a website and translate from English to Danish. If only I knew where that website ended up...

benibela 8y ago
Born in 89, I made a webpage for my mother at that time. She still likes it :/ Check the generator tag on the frameset page http://www.roswithavanderzander.de/index_EN.htm http://www.roswithavanderzander.de/index_EN.htm
- egeozcan 8y ago
  It can use some minimal styling but much better than loading 100MB to see less content. I say great job :)
- scarface74 8y ago
  It loads fast. It’s easy to navigate. With just a little bit of work, it would be more appealing than most “modern” web page.
- elliotpage 8y ago
  This page is great. It loads instantly, shows you the content up front, has clear navigation, and has clear contrast between elements. Also, it has frames, which I honestly miss even though I am glad we have moved past them.
  - Atheros 8y ago
    Why did and does everyone hate frames so much? Do they not have their place even on modern sites sometimes? (Even if they aren't technically frames?) The top bar of Google Docs is a visual frame and it seems appropriate to me.
  - Izkata 8y ago
    And frames have a feature I love that's almost never implemented nowadays: You can click+drag the border to freely resize the frames and see the content better.
- abricot 8y ago
  I really dig your mom's erh.. organic art.
dzhiurgis 8y ago
web.archive.org supports keyword search, you can try find it that way.

ddtaylor 8y ago

Similar story for me, but with a Dragonball Z fan site. Internet, I'm sorry.

ddnb 8y ago
Made a Pokemon fan site, must have been 9 or something, I didn't know how to link to other pages, so everything was one page and links worked via anchors...
- robryan 8y ago
  I attempted to make a pokemon battle system in front page by linking pages and hard coding each action.
  - blairbeckwith 8y ago
    Oh man, me too. I couldn’t figure out anything about dynamic web pages except that I needed a host with “cgi-bin support”. I wanted to build a Neopets alternative, and when I couldn’t figure out how to do anything dynamic, I figured I could just build out a new page for every combination of variables that could change. I was like, 7, so my math skills didn’t really allow me to understand the scope of the number of pages that would be required. But god damn if I didn’t have a blast trying.
jle17 8y ago
I made a Nintendo fan site with FrontPage 2000 (well the first version was made with Word which made atrocious HTML but I migrated quickly). It was complete with all the expected features of the time, including an autoplaying MIDI Pokémon background music, Comic Sans everywhere and 3D rotating text gifs made with Xara X3D. Oh and moving text in the status bar. I'm not sorry at all though.
rangibaby 8y ago
Me too. Midis and comet cursor. Sorry
amyjess 8y ago

pmtarantino 8y ago

Are you sure you are not me? We have the same past it seems.

elboru 8y ago

Wow, I would have loved to be friends with all the guys in this thread. I didn't have a single friend with this kind of interests, none of my friends would be interested in creating stuff instead of just consuming it.