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It might be sitting on an old hard drive in my basement (I never dispose of them with other equipment, instead telling myself I will someday wipe them manually and/or drill through the platters).
Making interactive forms and CGIs was where I really started getting inspired to learn programming. Matt's scripts were some of the first perl I learned from. I basically transformed WWWBoard into a web-based chat back in '97.
Oh my. My first site was also a little embarrassing, but this was 2011/2012, so it wasn't quite so flashy :) http://www.foodthechildren.com/default.php
...brings back memories.
I hope the younger folk appreciate all the web-design sins we committed before they were born, so that no one else need repeat them, ever again.
I might still have a page or two left over from 1998 or thereabouts, on a PATA hard drive collecting cosmic rays in my garage. But no, you can't see them. I am too ashamed.
I love it. I have an unreasonable amount of nostalgia for old websites like this. This is what the whole Web looked like back in the early days, before the usability and design gurus figured out the "best practices" and all sites started looking the same. It really was a wild new frontier. I'm not saying the Web was objectively better back then, but it sure was fun.
I feel like it needs more blink and marquee tags, and a tiled background.
I was able to clean it up a bit with Macromedia Fireworks in 1999: https://web.archive.org/web/19991004165614/http://roha.maxim...
I don't remember exactly what I used to build these but it was probably some combination of AOLPress, Macromedia Dreamweaver, FrontPage, and Hotdog Professional FTP
I really, really wish I could find my old Geocities website. It was mostly just a bunch of jokes I found around the Internet, and it'd be interesting to see what kind of stuff I found funny back in 1999. It might be sitting on an old hard drive in my basement (I never dispose of them with other equipment, instead telling myself I will someday wipe them manually and/or drill through the platters).