Why keep old webpages? Data is outdated, information is irrelevant, layout is probably shameful, but they are funny to see at least once. It is history, isn't it? I have just found on some dusty ZIP files the old websites I once created, and I have decided to make them online again. Great thing about the WWW technology: They are still viewable with the most recent browsers!!
By the time I made my very first web page, I was just barely able to navigate. So I pulled the Netscape Navigator Gold 3.0.1 and created a webpage for my family. HTML 3.2 with probably many Netscape extensions, a lot of 'borrowed' icons (the New icon was from good old WebCrawler) and cheesy animated gifs. I am pretty suprised when I read 15-November-1997. I could not believe the page was that old.
My second web page was called Mikkelissä (Finn for 'in Mikkeli' if I am not wrong). I made it while in Finland, as a tribute to the friends I made there. It was a funny combination of TABLES, animated GIFS, and logos made using Cooltext; all created by hand with vi and notepad. Woah, that was hard work.
My next effort stayed much longer online: xmanoel@web.page. This time I used WML (no that WML!), but I abused once again of TABLES for the layout (there was CSS already but very few people was using it).
