Back in the day, I was a high schooler and daniweb.com was a website about my Yorkie and Maltese!! However, I couldn't help my nerdiness and interest in web development, and there was an "HTML Tutor" section as well.
(Also, please just tell us about it without this turning into any type of website promotion for businesses you're currently working on.)
Jump to Post— trcooke 253I was 21, so circa 2000, and I made a HTML only website to share the photos I took while on a skiing holiday to Lake Tahoe, Nevada. I didn't buy a domain for it, in fact I didn't even know how to do that back then, so I hosted …
Jump to Post— Salem 6,009I only ever got as far as
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Jump to Post— wwwalker 91My first site was my own small IT business's site. From there I did other sites. It had one page and a list of what I offered (Web development, tech support, online Linux and Web indexing courses, Web indexing software, technical writing, live music) with my logo I invented for …
Jump to Post— jkon 738I hadn't thought of it until reading this. Now that I have and tried to go back in time, I've eliminated some earlier candidates because I wouldn't consider them 'sites.' So, it was probably somewhere in '95 on GeoCities. It was a site about my dad's art, made out of …
Jump to Post— FarrisFahad 120My first website was built with Flash 5. Back then it was new and I only knew that software.
I used my Mom's credit card to purchase the domain and did not tell my Mom.
It kept charging my Mom until the card was expired and after years I searched …
I have made the first website which is also my blogging website known as AcademicJourney <Promotional link removed>
The website is aim to provide the best insights from educational and technical domain.
I was 21, so circa 2000, and I made a HTML only website to share the photos I took while on a skiing holiday to Lake Tahoe, Nevada. I didn't buy a domain for it, in fact I didn't even know how to do that back then, so I hosted it on whatever little slice of internet our ISP at the time provided.
I only ever got as far as
<head>under construction</head>
The first website I made 5 month ago.That early project inspired the journey that eventually led to creating <Promotional Link Removed>, where I now help businesses build professional, high-performing websites that truly make an impact.
My first site was my own small IT business's site. From there I did other sites. It had one page and a list of what I offered (Web development, tech support, online Linux and Web indexing courses, Web indexing software, technical writing, live music) with my logo I invented for it. It is still on archive.org. Very simple. Long time ago. It was started in 1996. First site WWWalker Web Development archive in 1998
Oooh I remember LinkExchange! Also all the webrings from back then. I had my own webring (of course) but I also started my own banner link exchange for dog-related sites. It became pretty popular actually.
Just a reminder to folks to please not turn this thread into any type of website promotion for businesses you're currently working on. Thanks!! :)
My first website was back at the end of the 90s. It was a very small (dozen or so pages) HTML-only site, covering sci-fi stuff, hosted on one of those free webhosts (freeserve.co.uk). Basically, it was a way for me to learn HTML/web design by hand-coding. I'd recently bought HTML 4 for Dummies, so I opened it up at the start of the book, opened up Notepad on my WinTel PC, and off I went. Very simple and raw nuts 'n' bolts method of getting into web design, just basic HTML 4 markup plus a few images. But no better way to start off learning the basics, before moving onto more sophisticated HTML editors and more complex websites.
As I said, I spent a while fiddling with Notepad, using HTML 4 for Dummies as a reference, and I had a small, primitive, handcoded, HTML-only website, ready to be uploaded. Back in those days, I bought lots of computer magazines (a dying breed these days), and they all had cover discs (CDs, and later, DVDs) full of free software. There was a bunch of FTP programs on those discs, so I tried a few of them, and finally settled on one that I liked.
I then went looking for a free UK web hosting service, and settled on FreeServe, which came highly recommended in the computer mags. It was only 10 MB of free webspace (can't complain - it was free), which seems miserly now, but was plenty back in those days, especially for a small website with only a few pages. Shortly afterwards, I signed up with the NTL cable network. Lots and lots of nice new TV channels, but also 50 MB of free webspace with the ntlworld web hosting service. So I started a second, larger hand-coded website.
50 MB with ntlworld and 10 MB with Freeserve. Things were certainly looking up. I thought I was in heaven. Two free web hosting services, and a crash course in FTP and handcoding in HTML. I was loving it! Those certainly were the days...
I hadn't thought of it until reading this. Now that I have and tried to go back in time, I've eliminated some earlier candidates because I wouldn't consider them 'sites.' So, it was probably somewhere in '95 on GeoCities. It was a site about my dad's art, made out of necessity because he had some inquiries from abroad and wanted to be able to show some of his work. The site has been lost, and my dad has been gone for many years now, so even the memory of that site (which as a -view- was ahead of its time) is a great one. Thank you for reminding me of that.
Originally I used Xoom free web hosting while most other people I knew used Geocities. I didn't like Geocities because it required a big banner ad at the top of every page, while Xoom just required a small link in the page footer.
It was only 10 MB of free webspace (can't complain - it was free)
If memory serves me correctly, Xoom was 11 MB :)
After not too long, I purchased the domain daniweb.com and switched to a cheap web host. After a few years, DaniWeb got redone as a tech forum. That cheap web host ended up being a reseller of The Planet. As DaniWeb grew, I eventually switched to working directly with The Planet, eventually becoming one of their biggest customers. The Planet ended up being purchased and merged with Softlayer, so I ended up a Softlayer client despite using the same hardware and remaining in the same datacenter. Softlayer was eventually purchased by IBM, so then it became Softlayer, an IBM Company. After that, it just became IBM Cloud. Then, in the last couple of years, to save money, we moved to a private cabinet colocated with Dedicated.com.
About 2003, I gave up on NTL, which was a combination TV channel cable network and phone company, with the ntlworld webhosting service added on. I found their much-touted "cheaper" phone service to be nothing of the sort, so I dropped them altogether, and started up with a new webhost, Plusnet, which was offering "unlimited" bandwidth and webspace. By this stage, I'd dropped not only NTL, but had also stopped using Freeserve. Why bother with a paltry 50 MB + 10 MB webspace when I now had "unlimited"? And it was much easier to focus all my web design activities on a single large site rather than several smaller ones.
From that point on, all my web design efforts were focused on Plusnet, at least up until 2006/2007, when I moved to Dreamhost, my first full-on, all-you-can-eat, all the bells and whistles, proper unlimited webhost, where I remain to this day. Around the same time, I started blogging on Wordpress.com, and a couple of years later on Blogger. Blogging has proven over the years to be a much easier and quicker way to get content up online, but it does have a negative side, in that it pretty much put the brakes on me learning raw coding and producing hand-coded websites for lengthy periods. Just typing text into an editor and hitting Post is so much easier, and VERY tempting.
If memory serves me correctly, Xoom was 11 MB :)
That was back in the day when 10 or 11 MB was considered a decent amount of webspace, at least for a HTML-only site. I reckon it wouldn't have been able to hold more than a few images and would have struggled with any video content.
These days, 10 GB would be considered a small amount of webspace. An increase of a thousandfold. How times have changed!
10 GB isn't too little if your website isn't very graphic or video heavy. DaniWeb's entire database of 20+ years of content is only twice that.
my first website is letterboxedanswers and this website is currently running!
10 GB isn't too little if your website isn't very graphic or video heavy. DaniWeb's entire database of 20+ years of content is only twice that.
My websites and blogs have always been very text-oriented, with a few images (one or two per page) thrown in. I've never used video or audio files, which would've eaten up a lot more space. So I guess that 10 GB would've been enough to keep me going for years. But I've always loved the reassurance of "unlimited". :)
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I think the first website I ever built was an open love letter to a cutie from my school haha. Then the first project with a backend (PHP) and more structure (multiple pages) was a web game inspired by Monster Hunter (PS1). I never managed to implement any actual battles, but at least I had some monsters in a database and it was loaded to render some monster profile pages. Although it's been over 10 years since I've developed a huge disdain for PHP's sloppiness, it was so instrumental to teaching me computer programming as a kid because it was so easy to install and free of corporate bureaucratic BS; I got give it that at least. Finally I got my first job and helped maintain some healthplan service portals with billing and document delivery systems. But the first time I actually built several web apps from start to finish was when I got my first and only tech-lead role, and with a very small team we delivered 3+ apps in around 3 months only, it was nuts. Those apps were a teaching platform with slideshows that synced in realtime with the teacher slideshow (and also had some questionnaires/polls students could fill in and the results were relayed back to the teacher in realtime; this was used on in-person talks and workshops), a mobile knowledge base app of sorts for spokespeople working on the field in corporate crisis management so they would know the canonical position of the company at all times in realtime, and another I don't frankly remember anymore :) At this point it was all built in React and NodeJS. Sometimes I feel like I should rebuild the slideshows app and the mobile knowledge base one and release as free software, but meh.
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The first website I ever built was a simple personal portfolio showcasing my projects and skills. It helped me learn HTML, CSS, and basic web design fundamentals, sparking my passion for development.
My first website was built with Flash 5. Back then it was new and I only knew that software.
I used my Mom's credit card to purchase the domain and did not tell my Mom.
It kept charging my Mom until the card was expired and after years I searched for it just for fun and found the website live :)
I did not know about it. It was an amazing moment for me because there was too memories to it :)
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