This is such a great suggestion, actually.
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This is such a great suggestion, actually.
So, tell us, what *did* it feel like to make your first website?
https://donotreply.cards/en/do-post-what-it-felt-like-to-make-your-first-website
(via @danhon https://dan.mastohon.com/@danhon/113018272551284688)
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Daniel Durransreplied to Sara Joy :happy_pepper: last edited by
@sarajw I was in my mid-teens as far as I can tell. The timestamp on this file is 1997 but it could have been earlier. Hosted on Compuserve, then Geocities and finally Tripod before I got my own hosting.
Making your own website was liberating. You could literally look at how other sites were built and very easily copy/paste things you liked, expressing yourself through what you created.
Good luck doing that with a React or Angular site.
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Matthew Lyonreplied to Sara Joy :happy_pepper: last edited by [email protected]
@sarajw @danhon I cobbled together some naively personal pages including a collection of favorite links in Notepad on Windows 3.11, and FTP’d them up to my town’s co-operative host. A week later I got a feature on a site featuring cool new pages, and it felt kinda neat, like, hey this stranger appreciates something I did on the computer. It was 1995.
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David Thompsonreplied to Sara Joy :happy_pepper: last edited by
@sarajw @danhon I don’t know if it was my first, but I remember the feeling of cobbling together a working site navigation out of some HTML and JavaScript I’d adapted from a video game website, a few images I badly stitched together, and *frames*. That feeling of getting something to work, then being able to show it off and use it to connect with my friends, was something very special.
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David Thompsonreplied to David Thompson last edited by
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Dave Winer ☕️replied to Sara Joy :happy_pepper: last edited by
Here's the story of my first website.
It was January 1, 1995. The rules were simple. Send a message to their mail server. It sends back a URL of a page containing the text in your email. So I sent it a simple message. Hello Dave. As I expected the page that it sent back a pointer to contained just that text. OK, so I went to HotWired's home page,
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