A walk to the past

I wanted to know where I have been and how far back I did go my Internet history. Unfortunately, some of my own archives were lost during several migration and transition between systems after systems. That's true if you are wondering. There was from time way before the Cloud to dump all your archives and no ubiquitous use of NAS and in fact I was quite young to see the value of backup. To make the things worst, most of the data was kept on floppy disks and sometimes files are compressed and spanned to several disks.

Eight years ago, after I finished my days at high school I had an urge to possess a representation of myself on the Internet so I made the very first domain registration. Thanks to this wonderful archive, I am able to see the time I had registered the domain.

Back then I had no clue what to publish and it took me another year to start piecing things together to put on my website. As a beginner, I had very little knowledge on HTML and fancy scripting like CSS and Java scripts so the site contents were almost static. I also decided to make the site as a portal to other sites which the visitors could reach additional information so I simply put the URLs of the sites I browsed most often.

Since I've lost the original templates of the site, I tried to dig up some resources that I could depend on and I discovered some of the design I used in 2005.

Some of you may notice that the page was designed in original Dreamweaver, long before acquired by Adobe. Actually the design did have some extent of CSS to keep the layout consistent on different resolutions which later added some scripts to determine the browser it was served to optimize.

I believe most of the Internet users would remember 2004 as the birth of Gmail and it was some form of privilege to get access to it because that was by invitation only and I've got mine in November 2004. So I used that to garner more traffic to my site by adding gmail-lite later for people who had restricted access at the time.

Later the site was used to serve as a test bed for some of my projects in undergraduate diplomas and degrees. While most of my classmates had to demonstrate the projects from their laptops during the presentation, all I had to do was to give the instructors/moderators the link. From these times, I enjoyed a form of remote storage so that I don't need to worry about the laptop failure or accidental file lost due to viruses. I would keep copies of class work on the hosting site and modified the folder permission to restrict from being browsed externally. As the words got out to the instructors, I no longer could use same excuses as my classmates.

After sometimes, I got too busy with my study and lost track to keep the site updated so I've let it drift. But all the time, I want to continue what I have started and took a first chance when I can contribute contents myself rather than passing along just the links. Truth be told, passing links become mainstream of what people mostly do today, known as Social Network.