My First Website

It's the 45th anniversary of the internet and the 30th of the web. Here's #myfirstwebpage http://www.kevinmarks.com/myfirstwebsite.html where's yours?

Euan Semple

@kevinmarks Got a typo "wat" - being pedantic to make up for the fact that I have no idea where my first one is! ;-)

Scare-ah Jeong

@kevinmarks I wish mine were still up somewhere! I was 12 and really into <marquee></marquee>

christian crumlish

@kevinmarks my first website (a story) or my first homepage?

Kevin Marks

@mediajunkie good question - I was thinking of my first homepage, though I did link to my company website too

Dorian Taylor

@kevinmarks 30th?

Kevin Marks

@doriantaylor derp 20th

Dorian Taylor

@kevinmarks what makes 2014 the 20th? Mosaic/Apache rollout?

Kevin Marks

@doriantaylor 20th anniversary of the #w3c w3.org/20/ #w3c20 #myfirstwebpage

Dorian Taylor

@kevinmarks ohhhhhHHHhhh. Right. @w3c.

B. Scruntfish

@kevinmarks This is brilliant that you have this - and I remember it! Think you actually still have my first blog somewhere too....yikes.

Andrew Hazlett

Inspired by @kevinmarks birth-of-the-internet celebration, here's #myfirstwebpage

Inspired by @kevinmarks birth-of-the-internet celebration, here's #myfirstwebpage 1 min read Celebrating the birth of the Internet 45 years ago today, Kevin Marks shared an image of his first website from way back in 1995 and asks others to share links with the hashtag #myfirstwebpage Mine? I foolishly gave up my first domain (now owned by Funny or Die), but here is an http://www.theoccasional.com/" target="_blank">Internet Archive's Wayback Machine capture from 2000. I think I started this in 1999.

Nick Donnelly

@kevinmarks oh sorry I'm not trolling I thought there was a CSS issue :D There is a certain FU aspect to it; ever think about a design?

Kevin Marks

@nickdonnelly it's minimalist, sure. Hopefully legible and mobile friendly. Looks like I did miss a close tag today

Isaac Hepworth

@kevinmarks ok thanks, got it. looking into it.

John Hattan

Yep. www.shatnerology.com. Hasn't changed in years :)

Michael K Pate

Mine was on the Gainesville Freenet in January of 1995 so unfortunately not.

Julie Wills

I think mine was on geocities, but I have no idea what its URL was.

Martin Djernaes

University killed it

Will Norris

The wayback machine has a copy of mine, but I'm too embarrassed to resurrect it :)

Matt Haughey

@kevinmarks whoa, I went to the 30th year anniversary at UCLA. Even wrote it up at Slashdot slashdot.org/story/99/09/04…

Maf Vosburgh

Always selling yourself short @kevinmarks. When I met you in 1989 you showed me an "information web" demo you'd made as an experiment.

Kevin Marks

Oh yes, though that was a hypercard stack. It did make bidirectional links though. Was it 1990 we made Vetstream's markup language?

Maf Vosburgh

I seem to remember you wrote a pre-www "web" demo that ran on the Acorn Archimedes.

Kevin Marks

Thinking about it, I think that was a kind of social graph of authors and citations that I made for my dad to organise notes for his book

Martin Bryant

Didn't we all! under_construction.gif

Kevin Marks

gifcities.org/?q=construction

Martin Bryant

That's like time travel.

Andrew Marks

This makes me:

Andrew Marks

The most wholesome thing on the internet today: my dad made his first website in 1995 and baby me featured prominently

Yvonne Shao

No, that's grown-up Andrew holding some baby.

Chris Aldrich

👓 My First Website | Kevin Marks

Read My First Website 2014-10-29 by Kevin Marks (kevinmarks.com) The first packets sent on what was to become the Internet happened 45 years ago today: The very first transmission on the ARPANET, on October 29, 1969, was the logon from UCLA to SRI. The first website was posted earlier, but the w3c was founded 20 years ago today too., and there is a gala celebrati... Syndicated copies to:

Amber Wilson

I like how you were in the IndieWeb game all this time ago already :)

My First Website 2014-10-29

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