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Wow. I'm still about 4 years away from the 30th anniversary of the first web page I ever created. Unfortunately I don't have it anymore.

fnord77 3y ago
I know what mine was: <html><body> <h1>hello</h1> </html> 
- richbell 3y ago
  I don't believe you. Where's <marque> or <blink>?
  - latchkey 3y ago
    animations with the <title> tag
  - COAGULOPATH 3y ago
    if you didn't have frames you weren't shit
- jeanchen 3y ago
  Ahh my first web pages were so full of errors! I'd say that was about '95-'97.
WorldMaker 3y ago
The oldest webpage I have found decent archives of was from 1998-1999. It was "Works Best in IE" and all sorts of TABLE layout and weird magpie bits of JS madness. I based my current blog look in part based on what that 1998/1999 version of me thought would look cool for a webpage and couldn't quite pull off with TABLEs and GIFs. I know I was building them years before that, but I'm not sure if I could tell you exactly which year I started. I do remember that a lot of my first web pages were hosted on the 1MB (then 2MB) AOL "MyPlace" (which was before AOL Hometown and before the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive). I remember at one point using up all of the AOL account's profiles just to have web pages on them. It was supposed to be a family account, but I was the one most (ab)using it. My recollection of it, and that recollection is probably all sorts of wrong at this point, that 1MB version of "MyPlace" was one of the launch features around the time of Eternal September (in 1993 or 1994), so it is very possible I was "hosting" web pages as early as 1993. As I recall it, I was building web pages even before that AOL hosting, and mostly "hosting" them just on floppy disks I'd take to school. (Which is the reason I can't rely on my recollection too well here: I was a very precocious 9 in 1993.)
- COAGULOPATH 3y ago
  Remember how there was a hosting company called "50 Megs" because that was a huge amount of storage back in the day.
bcrosby95 3y ago
I made my first webpage back in 1996 for a project in my high school CS class. I don't think I have it either, but from what I recall of it, it was pretty corny.

fnord77 3y ago

I know what mine was: <html><body> <h1>hello</h1> </html>

richbell 3y ago
I don't believe you. Where's <marque> or <blink>?
- latchkey 3y ago
  animations with the <title> tag
- COAGULOPATH 3y ago
  if you didn't have frames you weren't shit
jeanchen 3y ago
Ahh my first web pages were so full of errors! I'd say that was about '95-'97.

WorldMaker 3y ago

The oldest webpage I have found decent archives of was from 1998-1999. It was "Works Best in IE" and all sorts of TABLE layout and weird magpie bits of JS madness. I based my current blog look in part based on what that 1998/1999 version of me thought would look cool for a webpage and couldn't quite pull off with TABLEs and GIFs. I know I was building them years before that, but I'm not sure if I could tell you exactly which year I started. I do remember that a lot of my first web pages were hosted on the 1MB (then 2MB) AOL "MyPlace" (which was before AOL Hometown and before the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive). I remember at one point using up all of the AOL account's profiles just to have web pages on them. It was supposed to be a family account, but I was the one most (ab)using it. My recollection of it, and that recollection is probably all sorts of wrong at this point, that 1MB version of "MyPlace" was one of the launch features around the time of Eternal September (in 1993 or 1994), so it is very possible I was "hosting" web pages as early as 1993. As I recall it, I was building web pages even before that AOL hosting, and mostly "hosting" them just on floppy disks I'd take to school. (Which is the reason I can't rely on my recollection too well here: I was a very precocious 9 in 1993.)

COAGULOPATH 3y ago
Remember how there was a hosting company called "50 Megs" because that was a huge amount of storage back in the day.

bcrosby95 3y ago

I made my first webpage back in 1996 for a project in my high school CS class. I don't think I have it either, but from what I recall of it, it was pretty corny.