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[OldWelshGuy]

OK I have just had to stop as I thought I might wet myself. I just dug out a couple of back ups of sites from 1998, I also had a look on wayback at some of my (ouch) 'really cutting edge sites' http://www.archive.org/ go on make yourself laugh...

On the web, no-one can see your shame...

[webstream]

A while ago I happened on something I did back in the mid-90's. i swore I would never do that again!

Webstream

[Randy]

Humility is a good thing to have isn't it? I tend to set aside at least 1 day per year to review the WBM just to remind myself of past mistakes so that I don't repeat them.

[copywriter]

Oh my... what a headline! Check this out. This is when I had a much broader focus.

Old site with old company name.

[OldWelshGuy]

I agree that advertising is like eating, expensive and if you have too much of the wrong type it makes you sick

Weirdly I just wrote a bit about the common mistakes that new businesses make with regard advertising.

NO WAY am I going to put up the 98 site, what little credibility i do have would be washed away like yesterdays snow.

[Minerva]

I can get back as far as 1998 for the subsite I managed:
http://web.archive.o...om/alphaserver/
It looks a lot better than the original from early '96 that had a huge, useless graphic of outer space. We initially weren't allowed to use <table> tags, which made displaying all the product specs quite frustrating!

There was a lot more freedom in those days. Managers thought the web was mysterious and magic -- and were quick to throw money at it! WWW was like the wild wild west. Now it's all grown up.

-Andrea-

[Grumpus]

Hmmm. The site actually goes back to about 1995, but it's only showing back to 1999... Most of the graphics are long gone, but some of the stuff is still there, it seems. This was one of my very first web pages and ended up being the officially sanctioned site for Cynthia Gibb (she was in a couple movies back in the day).
http://web.archive.o...ood/Hills/4360/

This was a fun little thing, despite the fact that the site looked like crap. It listed internet contact information for celebrities and it gave me the opportunity to correspond with some pretty famous people. Jackie Chan, Adam Sandler, Rodney Dangerfield, and several others whose names are escaping me right now all visted the site at one point or another. Most of the time, though, I ended up talking with agents and representatives. <shrug> Was a fun little hobby and, though the site wasn't dynamically generated, you can see in the celebrity e-mail database that I was already in the mindset of what was eventually to come.

Fun stuff.

G.

[Dyan]

*sincere thanks to the Creator that they don't have the first version of HoH archived*

The second earliest is bad enough.

[Ruud]

In Feb. 1999 this was my second attempt at our happy couple site, about 1 year after the first attempt. In August 2002 it looked like this on a paid host but still without domain name.

September 2003 ... mm, struggling with Typo3's idea of templates.... bad idea...

And finally in [url="http://www.the-happycouple.com"]2004 we end up with the current incarnation... Can you say: moved away from minimalist design?

Ruud