Glencoe, 5 months ago

@fitheach My first website, probably around 1999 or thereabouts, was one where folks could download screensavers I'd made. All hand coded html, hosted on webspace from my then service provider. I did it purely as a learning exercise and something to show potential employers. It stayed up for years after I left that service provider, but vanished some time ago. It served is purpose well, had a fair bit of traffic with a shedload of screensaver downloads.

fitheach, 5 months ago

@Glencoe
Fantastic!
How did you create the screensavers, and for which platform?

Glencoe, 5 months ago

@fitheach Tbh I can't remember, it was some long forgotten screen saver producing software, but no idea what it was called. For Windows platform.

fitheach, 5 months ago

@Glencoe
Must've been Windows 95/98? Those and Windows 2000 were the only MS operating systems I used.

Glencoe, 5 months ago

@fitheach My first actual paying work in the computer world was doing some Flash (then Macromedia) animations for the National Engineering Laboratory.

fitheach, 5 months ago

@Glencoe
Snap!
I used to do that, too.
Macromedia made some great products. Dreamweaver and Fireworks were great.

zudn, 5 months ago

@fitheach I had a hand-coded html website in the beginning. No idea how I managed that.

Hear! hear!

fitheach, 5 months ago

@zudn
It was easier back then. 😃

The first iteration of my website was done without CSS. It wasn't until the third iteration of my website did I use CSS. What a revelation!

I'm not sure if there was any way to have your own website, in 1998, without hand-coding the HTML.