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Mark Zuckerberg's Angelfire Site (Circa 1999)

20 points by caffeinewriter 14y ago

famousactress 14y ago
Wow.. "The Web" project seems especially prophetic: http://web.archive.org/web/20021201160011/http://www.angelfire.com/ny/mez51/web.html http://web.archive.org/web/20021201160011/http://www.angelfi... "As of now, the web is pretty small. Hopefully, it will grow into a larger web. This is one of the few applets that require your participation to work well. If your name is already on The Web because someone else has chosen to be linked to you, then you may choose two additional people to be linked with. Otherwise, if you see someone who you know and would like to be linked with but your name is not already on The Web, then you can contact me and I will link that person to you and put you on The Web. If you do not know anyone on The Web, contact me anyway and I will put you on it. In order for this applet to work, you must E-Mail me your name and the names of the two people that you would like to be linked with. Thank you!"
- waterlesscloud 14y ago
  Another overnight success story.
GuiA 14y ago
Maybe I'm extrapolating from nothing here, but it's interesting to see that some of the ideas that shaped his career have been with him for a while. Most notable is his "The Web" applet, which is a sort of extremely elementary prototype of Facebook: http://web.archive.org/web/20021201160011/http://www.angelfire.com/ny/mez51/web.html http://web.archive.org/web/20021201160011/http://www.angelfi... Similarly, his remark on his drawing tool page: "The Internet has some effect on almost every person in the world. However, it is fairly uncommon for a person to have an effect on the Internet without going through the long and tedious process of creating a website" It seems like from very early on, Mark was interested about how to a) make the web a place for anyone to express themselves, and b) that would allow people to perpetuate their real life relationships. Again, I may be just reading too much into things here, but I feel that those are interesting thoughts. I wonder what links people would make between my teenage programming projects and my current work... :)
- hcarvalhoalves 14y ago
  > Most notable is his "The Web" applet, which is a sort of extremely elementary prototype of Facebook Right on point.
brodd 14y ago
No need for archive.org, it's still up and running: http://www.angelfire.com/ny/mez51/ http://www.angelfire.com/ny/mez51/
serf 14y ago
So, he went from Angelfire sites that had big java eyeballs follow your cursor... to a website where the worlds' governments big eyeballs follow your cursor.. great
- caffeinewriter 14y ago
  I'm quite happy that I turned Java off before visiting that site. Then again, it's always off unless I need it.
TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
No need for archive.org, his site is still up: http://www.angelfire.com/ny/mez51/ http://www.angelfire.com/ny/mez51/ Interestingly, he seems to have gone and re-implemented parseInt and .toString() in JavaScript for his base converter, instead of using the built-in functions: http://www.angelfire.com/ny/mez51/conv.html http://www.angelfire.com/ny/mez51/conv.html
- caffeinewriter 14y ago
  I realized that after I posted the link, then I noticed another link was on the front page, so more or less redundant, but I predict the archive copy will outlive Angelfire.
- accountoftheday 14y ago
  google the symbol names and you will see the javascript is copypasta.
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Wow.. "The Web" project seems especially prophetic: http://web.archive.org/web/20021201160011/http://www.angelfire.com/ny/mez51/web.html http://web.archive.org/web/20021201160011/http://www.angelfi... "As of now, the web is pretty small. Hopefully, it will grow into a larger web. This is one of the few applets that require your participation to work well. If your name is already on The Web because someone else has chosen to be linked to you, then you may choose two additional people to be linked with. Otherwise, if you see someone who you know and would like to be linked with but your name is not already on The Web, then you can contact me and I will link that person to you and put you on The Web. If you do not know anyone on The Web, contact me anyway and I will put you on it. In order for this applet to work, you must E-Mail me your name and the names of the two people that you would like to be linked with. Thank you!"

waterlesscloud 14y ago
Another overnight success story.

GuiA 14y ago

Maybe I'm extrapolating from nothing here, but it's interesting to see that some of the ideas that shaped his career have been with him for a while. Most notable is his "The Web" applet, which is a sort of extremely elementary prototype of Facebook: http://web.archive.org/web/20021201160011/http://www.angelfire.com/ny/mez51/web.html http://web.archive.org/web/20021201160011/http://www.angelfi... Similarly, his remark on his drawing tool page: "The Internet has some effect on almost every person in the world. However, it is fairly uncommon for a person to have an effect on the Internet without going through the long and tedious process of creating a website" It seems like from very early on, Mark was interested about how to a) make the web a place for anyone to express themselves, and b) that would allow people to perpetuate their real life relationships. Again, I may be just reading too much into things here, but I feel that those are interesting thoughts. I wonder what links people would make between my teenage programming projects and my current work... :)

hcarvalhoalves 14y ago
> Most notable is his "The Web" applet, which is a sort of extremely elementary prototype of Facebook Right on point.

brodd 14y ago

No need for archive.org, it's still up and running: http://www.angelfire.com/ny/mez51/ http://www.angelfire.com/ny/mez51/

serf 14y ago

So, he went from Angelfire sites that had big java eyeballs follow your cursor... to a website where the worlds' governments big eyeballs follow your cursor.. great

caffeinewriter 14y ago
I'm quite happy that I turned Java off before visiting that site. Then again, it's always off unless I need it.

TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago

No need for archive.org, his site is still up: http://www.angelfire.com/ny/mez51/ http://www.angelfire.com/ny/mez51/ Interestingly, he seems to have gone and re-implemented parseInt and .toString() in JavaScript for his base converter, instead of using the built-in functions: http://www.angelfire.com/ny/mez51/conv.html http://www.angelfire.com/ny/mez51/conv.html

caffeinewriter 14y ago
I realized that after I posted the link, then I noticed another link was on the front page, so more or less redundant, but I predict the archive copy will outlive Angelfire.
accountoftheday 14y ago
google the symbol names and you will see the javascript is copypasta.

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