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My Very First Homepage

Sun, Feb 18, 2007

Business, Design, Developing, Fun, Innovation, Personal


Last night I was reading a Wired Magazine from Oktober 1994. In it is an article titled “The (Second Phase of the) Revolution Has Begun”. It is about Mosaic, Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark. The article is illustrated with screenshots of websites from that time.

The screenshots reminded me of the first website I build, only months after this article. It was titled ‘The PhotoDelivery Page’ and started working on it about a week after I bought my first modem. It was very popular and was even featured in the first Online Magazine, Global Network Navigator, which was started by Tim O’Reilly in 1993.

The idea of the PhotoDelivery Page was that people requested photos they thought I wouldn’t be able to make and then, with the help of my Apple Quicktake 1.0 and Photoshop 1.0, I would produce them anyway. And within 24 hours.

My first prodivder shut the site down after 3 weeks because if the huge amount of traffic it generated.

I’m getting old…

6 Responses to “My Very First Homepage”

  1. Bram says:

    You should do more crazy stuff like that again.

  2. I do enough crazy shit! Just a little bit more hidden…

  3. mark says:

    That’s still quite a good idea! Do you know about anyone who practices something like that right now? I spotted the photo on flickr but is there also a web.archive-link of that page?

  4. Nope, that page was hosted by Wirehub and the Archive only goes back until 1998: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.wirehub.nl

    But I’m sure other people do similar things now on Flickr?

  5. Tinus says:

    Deze man tekent alles voor $2. Ook een leuk initiatief:

    http://yirmumah.com/will-draw-anything/

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