I'm in the interview process for my next tech job, but I figured I'd stop to look back a bit. The earliest bit of web development I can remember was my Angelfire site. It's a static site that I built at the tender age of 11, all the way back in 2005.
It wasn't always orange- I had a cool tiled black-and-green matrix-style background (it was an animated GIF as well!) until link rot killed it. There were also a bunch of embedded pieces of code from other sites that were supposed to add different animations or sounds, none of which really work any more anyways. The whole thing is written solely in HTML, with some inline styling.
It was super fun making it, and both embarrassing and fun to look at it again, now that I'm a proper MERN stack developer working with all kinds of high-tech containerization and automation tools.
Do any of y'all have old projects you'd like to share?
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I believe my first website was groceries. I built a LOT of cites for myself. One of my favorites was one that was trying to look like the Star Trek next generation interface using frames without borders. I believe it took 16 frames to make it work correctly and resize.
I remember building all the artwork pixel by pixel in MS Paint.
Wow I am old. That was 1998 maybe?! I was still in high school.
I got into web programming so I could make games. Which I had links to any of them.
My oldest standing site is ShredNebula.com, it was made in about 1 day and got me my first job in the game industry. I am not proud of the work, but it worked ok for the time.
My first project was a morse code converter, output was sent to serial port, i was about 13. Absolutely useless in the 21st century yet pretty fun !
My first website is my portfolio wbesite: husseincheayto.com
this beaut in 2008 was my first "website". But I made myspace/twitter custom profiles before that.