Retrograde
I was shuffling files around recently and came across an archive of my first personal website. It wasn't Ascent Stage, but a site called hypertext :: renaissance (you see, the lowercase and double-colon were edgy) that I built when I was in graduate school in 1996.
Click for annotations and prepare to mock.
Posted on June 11, 2008 to the category called Notes .
Comments
Man, I remember that page. I remember Voices from the Interface too. ;-)
Here's my retro:
Posted by: Matt K. at June 11, 2008 10:10 PM
That's more impressive than it deserves to be given it was 1996.
I think you just started a trend John. I'm going to see if I can find my 1997 one, though it may be far too embarrassing.
Posted by: Darren at June 12, 2008 1:20 AM
Oh wow, that actually is pretty impressive for the time! Consider this far more embarrasing blast from the past, circa 2000:
...as compared to now:
Gawd, who the heck are those people?
Bizarre thing is that we've been off of DSL for years and yet that oh-so-quality code remains alive on one of our old ISP's servers somewhere out in the ether.
Posted by: Rob O. at June 12, 2008 5:45 AM
digital space assembly - 12 years later and nothings changed :-)
Posted by: Ricky at June 12, 2008 10:19 PM
Visual flashback alert! Now...send me your Mark Gage remixes!
Posted by: asg at July 1, 2008 12:24 PM
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