diff --git a/content/post/2020/10/a-personal-journey-through-the-history-of-webdesign.md b/content/post/2020/10/a-personal-journey-through-the-history-of-webdesign.md index 2b414d7e..7fcc5e0d 100644 --- a/content/post/2020/10/a-personal-journey-through-the-history-of-webdesign.md +++ b/content/post/2020/10/a-personal-journey-through-the-history-of-webdesign.md @@ -1,8 +1,141 @@ --- -title: 'A personal journey through the history of webdesign' -concept: true +title: 'A journey through the history of webdesign' +subtitle: 'Using personal websites and the Internet Archive' +categories: + - webdesign +date: 2020-10-04 --- -2003: GamingClones (geen MySQL backup meer...) -https://web.archive.org/web/20040120171650/http://gamingclones.com/ +While browsing through archives of _very_ old files, I rediscovered backups of websites I once made. It felt a bit like scrolling [thehistoryofweb.design](https://thehistoryofweb.design/), an interactive journey through the history of webdesign. Thanks to the Internet Archive project, revisiting these now-offline websites was not only a very personal and nostalgic ride for me, but also an educational one. + +Why not let the websites speak for themselves and follow the history together with me, from 1998 to 2020? I resurrected the static sites that weren't available at archive.org. The point here is not to "[revel in riches](https://scryfall.com/card/xln/117/revel-in-riches?utm_source=api)" (ha!), but to inspect trends from yesteryear and compare them with how websites look like today. + +### [1998](/museum/1998): Marquee, bgsound, iframes, applets + +My first website, created more than 22 years ago, is still full of surprises. I was 13 and had no idea of what I was doing. Still, I managed to scrape together a decent looking webiste, filled with sound advice on how to write Visual Basic 6 code, and of course information on games. As soon as you open the site, you'gre greeted with a nice looking background and GIF animation, and a a `` tag that should start playing a MIDI file in Internet Explorer 4. + +![](../site-1998.jpg "A part of my personal website in 1998.") + +[View the 1998 website here](/museum/1998). It was hosted on _uunet.be_, an ISP provider in Belgium. If you were not content with that offer, _geocities.com_ offered more disk space. + +The following techniques were considered cool back then: + +- Java applets +- If using Javascript, remember to use `alert()` +- `