The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html!

[andydearden@mastodon.green]

@stefan @timbl Good to have something very positive to remember #OTD

[nickmofo@mastodon.social]

@stefan @timbl Great to see that it’s still under construction, too!

[mpospese@mountains.social]

@stefan wish more websites today were like this. Lightweight and loads instantly.

[deborahh@cosocial.ca]

@stefan @timbl ah, nostalgia: let's make the web great again! (This year, I'm developing an allergy to the ad- and slop-infested web 🥺.)

[akamran@indieweb.social]

@stefan @timbl wow, instantly transported back to when every link was a fun rabbit hole! I could start out on my own first site (aol back in the day!) and end up reading about microbiology in Timbuktoo - or something equally removed from my quotidian existence. I miss that.

[ricci@discuss.systems]

@pty @stefan @timbl a tradition we have carried on ever since

[ricci@discuss.systems]

@stefan haha, wow, my first website would be like 29 years old, crazy how much closer it is to the existence of the first one than today!

Yes, IA has it. No, I will never give you the link.

[stefan@stefanbohacek.online]

@ricci Ha, shame, definitely would love to see it! Either way, very cool!

Mine would be almost 16 years old.

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/15-years-of-running-a-personal-website/

[xs4me2@mastodon.social]

@stefan @timbl

Wow… how time flies… I made my first hello world attempt in 1996 or so… at that time there were maybe 20000 websites in the Netherlands…

[stefan@stefanbohacek.online]

@xs4me2 Nice! And yes, it definitely does.

[pty@chaos.social]

hahahahaha, that's so true

@ricci @stefan @timbl

[jonpsp@mstdn.social]

@stefan I remember when CERN had to rename one of their webservers because it had an underscore in the name

[ricci@discuss.systems]

@stefan here, you can have a link to a page I made for a customer as a real, honest-to-god, professional web designer in 1997, when I was also still a high school student: https://web.archive.org/web/19970215043240/http://www.rustcoin.com/index.html

[paulditz@todon.eu]

@stefan @timbl This is how websites should look. I miss the front page that had a bunch of hyperlinks that looked ugly as hell but was super useful. Much better than the super slick, but completely unusable, modern websites.

[ricci@discuss.systems]

@stefan Here's one I made even earlier, for my dad's company: https://web.archive.org/web/19961230081906/http://srroberts.com/ . I don't remember if I got paid for it, so I don't know if it counts as "professional"

[ricci@discuss.systems]

@stefan look at that awful stone-like tiling background, the "click here"-ass bad anchor text, revel in that imagemap at the bottom

[ricci@discuss.systems]

@stefan check out how much better I (did not) make that shit just one year later: https://web.archive.org/web/19971007213051/http://srroberts.com/index.html

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

@ricci @stefan

I had one a few years earlier I but I havent found it on the archive yet. Here's my homepage from 1997
https://web.archive.org/web/19980121183331/http://net22.com:80/qazingulaza/wakest.html

[ricci@discuss.systems]

@stefan this is peak table-based layout, it never got better than this, who needs CSS

https://web.archive.org/web/19971007213401/http://www.srroberts.com/forms/forms1.html

[stefan@stefanbohacek.online]

Adding here as well: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/117049023247874036

Thanks to everyone keeping the web still going!