Comments on: Humble beginnings.

Humble beginnings.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:41:40 -0800

F i r s t p o s t !

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:41:45 -0800

does anyone read the posts down here?

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:41:54 -0800

Feel free to add your own.

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:47:17 -0800

Holy crap retroweb nostalgia.

By: cgc373

cgc373 — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:48:19 -0800

Was cat-scan.com suspected to be a self-link or what?

By: hal9k

hal9k — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:51:20 -0800

Naustalgea

By: crawfishpopsicle

crawfishpopsicle — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:52:30 -0800

ah...

By: feelinglistless

feelinglistless — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:55:46 -0800

My first post! (self link!)

By: adamms222

adamms222 — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:06:28 -0800

Is there a site which caches original pages of now-big sites (i.e., what the amazon or eBay homepages first looked like)? I would include the original MeFi page in that list, but don't think it has changed that much... just something I'm curious to see.

By: Plutor

Plutor — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:09:15 -0800

My first post. Yes, it's to usenet. Yes, it's asking for someone to do the research for me for a high school science fair project. Yes, it's missing a lot of capital letters. Yes, I used the "u" shortcut. Get off my case, damnit.

By: bobobox

bobobox — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:10:01 -0800

adamms222- There's alway the Wayback Machine Here is Yahoo in 1996

By: Smart Dalek

Smart Dalek — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:12:29 -0800

A Golden Oldie that was a first for some.

By: svenni

svenni — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:13:12 -0800

MetaFilter in '99

By: vacapinta

vacapinta — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:15:10 -0800

First Flickr photo.

By: Dr-Baa

Dr-Baa — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:18:01 -0800

Here is Yahoo in 1996 Wow. I remember seeing this for the first time in green text, with IMAGE written all over. I was using a community college internet service at the time, and it was text browsing only. Seeing it visually (once I subscribed to a local ISP) was a watershed moment for me. By the way, I yearn for the days of the local ISP. Despite the higher speed the inevitable Charter buyout brought, I miss the feeling of a local, small town portal to the Information Superhighway.

By: Pastabagel

Pastabagel — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:21:59 -0800

In hindsight, Lessig's first post demonstrates quite clearly that he is hopelessly clueless.

By: Skygazer

Skygazer — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:27:32 -0800

That Yahoo 1996 page is a trip and brought back some major memories. Thanks for that.

By: penguin pie

penguin pie — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:32:13 -0800

Wow, that mathowie guy was really kinda dominant in '99, wasn't he? Whatever happened to him?

By: jcterminal

jcterminal — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:37:04 -0800

hey can i play this game too ?

By: drezdn

drezdn — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:58:19 -0800

My first livejournal post. My first usenet post (that I could find) My first blog post.

By: ewkpates

ewkpates — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:01:05 -0800

My first post!

By: wendell

wendell — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:12:53 -0800

This is what I call "penicillin-resistant nostalgia". Okay, I really did start blogging in 1999, but couldn't resist interrupting the regular webcast with 'special' parody pages. In 2001, I lost my original domain name during an extended period without internet access, so the only surviving archive was at archive.org. And the oldest page saved there was, appropriately, my "Y2K" prank where I demonstrated what a blog would've looked like in 1900. Many of the jokes contained therein involve a-list bloggers of 1999 being compared to famous folk of 1900, so 'getting it' is optional.

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:28:15 -0800

We're talking five to ten years here, which supports my theory that Moore's Law applies to nostalgia. I figure it won't be long before nostalgia catches up to the present. But will it pass right through into an anticipatory phase, or explode in an Alzheimeresque annihilation of memory?

By: bobobox

bobobox — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:36:12 -0800

I'm already nostalgic for the future, when now will be the past.

By: koeselitz

koeselitz — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:40:51 -0800

My first post, from July 19, 1924.

By: koeselitz

koeselitz — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:41:35 -0800

...god, remember when there wasn't an internet? Wasn't that nice?

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:44:09 -0800

On nostalgia: I saw Jens Lekman play in Rotterdam almost exactly a year ago. He was wearing (and shilling) a "Jens Lekman T-shirt" that did nowhere say his name, only the bright big numbers "2006". It being early January, he explained: "this is a shirt for the optimists. On the other hand, in a year or so it will be a shirt for the nostalgics."

By: loiseau

loiseau — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:50:37 -0800

Those sites aren't as old as I thought they were. I'm not a snob, I swear, but I still have this unconscious perception that anything 2000 or later is new.

By: lodurr

lodurr — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:55:26 -0800

So I see that Winer was as unworthy of attention then as he is now... As GroundBreaking™ as all these folks were, we're still part of a fundamentally elitist enterprise, here. [*] [via *]

By: TravisJeffery

TravisJeffery — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:00:06 -0800

lifejunkie.org

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:00:37 -0800

When I was a kid we didn't have nostalgia. My mom mentioned the past once when I was twelve, and I didn't know what the hell she was talking about.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:01:10 -0800

I still have this unconscious perception that anything 2000 or later is new. This means you're old.

By: parmanparman

parmanparman — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:05:30 -0800

My first ever web post was for a spoof site for a college class (and I proudly did all the images - though now disappeared - in MS Image Composer!

By: rsanheim

rsanheim — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:07:00 -0800

My first post to usenet. Over ten years old, and still not one damn response.

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:12:45 -0800

Self-linking fuckers all. scroll down a bit for "joke"

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:20:13 -0800

My first website.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:21:48 -0800

Hah, my first lj post was a lot earlier than that. I'll refrain from linking to the archival copy of my first webpage, composed in ClarisWorks 2.0 for HTML 1.1 (or .0, I forget which), since it has my RL name on it.

By: loiseau

loiseau — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:25:31 -0800

There's no way in hell I'd link my first Usenet post, if it exists anywhere. I'll just say it was to alt.angst. Enough said. I learned about x-no-archive: yes too late.

By: Duug

Duug — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:52:40 -0800

My first.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:56:49 -0800

My first Usenet post, circa April 1995, in which I bitch about them changing it so you can only get Dilbert on the web instead of through a newsgroup. "summary: Web SUCKS". I also have another one wherein I complain about the special effects in Independence Day, on the day it came out. I wish the wayback machine had better coverage of the pages from 10+ years ago. That's the stuff I'd really like to see.

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 13:09:52 -0800

I have a website which went live in December 1995--the design and coding hasn't changed since the original launch. It still resides at its original domain. Some special features: * Frames * Splash page, including --a bunch of "awards" like the High Five (anyone remember that)? --Recommendations to use Netscape 3+ or IE 3+ * Optimized for 500 x 300, I think * Use of lowsrc, which I always thought was a decent idea My "links" page has about an 80% ratio of broken links to working ones, I think. I keep meaning to update it, since it's still got an audience, but the time capsule quality is kinda fun.

By: The Card Cheat

The Card Cheat — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:03:18 -0800

The first time (late '94) I tried to use "The Internet" (which I'd overheard people talking about in class) I went to my university library and accidentally logged on to Gopher instead. I clicked around in vain for a while, looking for any of the "web pages" I'd heard so much about, before giving up and concluding that this whole Internet thing was pretty overblown.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:05:57 -0800

My first post was on October 13th 1999 to Deja News, alt.religion.buddhism.tibetan, sent via email to the journalist Mary Finnegan, because my second-hand computer wasn't up to logging into Deja News. The post was regarding a petition to the Dalai Lama, discussing the sexual abuses of Tibetan lamas.

By: First Post

First Post — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:13:12 -0800

I heartily approve of this particular FPP.

By: growabrain

growabrain — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:15:53 -0800

My last post

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:17:00 -0800

ps fun idea for a post, goodnewsfortheinsane.

By: lobstah

lobstah — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:18:51 -0800

Mine in 2001

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:02:37 -0800

*by Tibetan lamas.

By: spock

spock — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:18:55 -0800

Metafilter: expect near-daily posts

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:50:12 -0800

How sweet! archive.org didn't see fit to archive my first weblog post, made sometime in 1997 on the free hosting provided by my ISP. For reasons I can no longer recall, it was an animated .gif I'd made of a thistle from Derek Jarman's garden.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:02:11 -0800

This post is closed to new comments. IM IN YR POST CLOSIN YR THREDZ!

By: dabitch

dabitch — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:11:46 -0800

hahaha. Can't find my first post (probably down in alt.commercials) but the waybackmachine digs up a truly horrid color combination that I used on my ad-site winter -97 to piss people off for some reason. Augh, my eyes! That is so painful.

By: dabitch

dabitch — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:18:13 -0800

sorry, I mean winter -96 to -97. see, that green melted my brain.)

By: grabbingsand

grabbingsand — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:55:35 -0800

Imported and Archived First Post.

By: croutonsupafreak

croutonsupafreak — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 00:41:21 -0800

*sigh* ... The Wayback Machine doesn't have my first web site. Actually, I think that's a good thing.

By: MetaMonkey

MetaMonkey — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 08:54:49 -0800

The Best and Worst of the Net 1994 and Predictions for '95

By: dozo

dozo — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 11:59:08 -0800

umm, why?

By: loiseau

loiseau — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 12:27:51 -0800

croutonsupafreak: "*sigh* ... The Wayback Machine doesn't have my first web site. " Me neither. I figured it was because mine was on Tripod, but I see brundlefly's is on there, and it was on Angelfire. Like you said, though, it's probably better.

By: Ogre Lawless

Ogre Lawless — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:42:40 -0800

Just in case you thought Kottke's navelgazing was a new thing.