... a Homepage?
Hands up those who remember Homepages.
In the days of the early Internet (yes I am old enough to remember that), we had Homepages and not Blogs. There was none of these fancy WYSIWYG software (not free anyway), and we had to painfully code in HTML, make sure our tags were all closed, crossed our fingers, upload the page and hoped it came out ok.
The standard framework for a Homepage was quite simple:
1) Who am I
2) My Family
3) My Good Friends
4) My School
5) My Hobbies
6) My Links
These were the days before digital cameras, so photos were scanned in manually (and in low resolution because digital storage space was expensive).
After a while we got bored because there was nothing else to add, and the culture of frequently updating it with news on our lives (ie blog) didn't exist yet. I don't think there were many anonymous Homepages for that matter.
Anyway, we soon forgot/abandoned our Homepages.
I wonder what has happened to my Homepage now. It's been probably a good 12 years since I last saw it. I don't even have the link for it anymore, much less remember how to log in and update/delete it. The domain name has probably disappeared in the dotcom fallout, or been taken over by some other big name and my account lost because I didn't re-log in.
Or have I under-estimated cyberspace and are the remnants still floating out there somewhere?
Hands up those who remember Homepages.
In the days of the early Internet (yes I am old enough to remember that), we had Homepages and not Blogs. There was none of these fancy WYSIWYG software (not free anyway), and we had to painfully code in HTML, make sure our tags were all closed, crossed our fingers, upload the page and hoped it came out ok.
The standard framework for a Homepage was quite simple:
1) Who am I
2) My Family
3) My Good Friends
4) My School
5) My Hobbies
6) My Links
These were the days before digital cameras, so photos were scanned in manually (and in low resolution because digital storage space was expensive).
After a while we got bored because there was nothing else to add, and the culture of frequently updating it with news on our lives (ie blog) didn't exist yet. I don't think there were many anonymous Homepages for that matter.
Anyway, we soon forgot/abandoned our Homepages.
I wonder what has happened to my Homepage now. It's been probably a good 12 years since I last saw it. I don't even have the link for it anymore, much less remember how to log in and update/delete it. The domain name has probably disappeared in the dotcom fallout, or been taken over by some other big name and my account lost because I didn't re-log in.
Or have I under-estimated cyberspace and are the remnants still floating out there somewhere?
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