OMG, I just found my first ever website
I was just googling myself to see what would come up (becuase I need a new job and you never know what employers might do). Anyway, what should come up in the images listing but my first ever website. It's unbelievably embarassing. 
I don't even remember uploading this. I vaguely remember writing some of it, but not the front part 
Want to see it??? Most of the links don't work.
Now, remember, this was the summer of 1997. That's 8 years ago. But if I got to be half decent after doing this garbage, there is hope for anyone!
http://members.tripod.com/~MeganJack/megpg.htm
(I actually thought that background was really coool! :roll: But hey, that was 1997, patterned backgrounds were cool then 
)
See how brave I am to actually show you all this?
Anyone else want to volunteer? You could try archive.org to find previous versions...
Megan posted this at 01:49 — 14th July 2005.
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:roll: :roll: OMG, that is soooooo funny!!!
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demonhale posted this at 08:37 — 14th July 2005.
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I think this Old Site of yours is MUCH BETTER than your present one... LOL
I also noticed you were a FAN of BIG Fonts and Centered Texts...
I cant find my old site; (it was meant to be; it was cra,p)...
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Busy posted this at 08:38 — 14th July 2005.
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That's not that bad (for the age of it), still dislike Nike ? lol
Whats really funny is the tripod error pages, they contain errors (parts failing to load etc)
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Greg K posted this at 17:01 — 14th July 2005.
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Submit it to the critique area
Have you ever tried using the wacky wayback machine at archive.org to look up your old designs?
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PS. Kinda off topic but while talking about old sites and the wayback machine:
I had someone ask me to look at their site, they didn't like the current one, and they couldn't get ahold of who did the current design. I did a search on the wayback machine for older versions of their site, and found some good text content from an earlier design that was left out of the redesign. They agreed that was some key missing information. This can also give you a good insite as to what they have seen before on their site.
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 18:34 — 14th July 2005.
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My first page has disappeared. I don't think archive.org has it.
It was a crazy mess of floating Java applets and little else, as I remember. Now that I think about it, I'm almost glad it's gone.
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karriston posted this at 20:04 — 14th July 2005.
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what age were you when you made it?
Greg K posted this at 20:46 — 14th July 2005.
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Hey Megan, did you ever find your cat?
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Megan posted this at 01:41 — 15th July 2005.
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Yes! She was actually under a tree on the other side of my building. Little bugger
Then she was mad at me for 3 days for not coming to get her sooner.
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JeevesBond posted this at 18:55 — 15th July 2005.
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I'm amazed it's still there (even if there is a degree of entropy), I love it - it's so damn retro! Is that what gave you the web design buzz to begin with? And why didn't you ever build on it?
My first "real" site was for a small business, and the archive doesn't have a copy of it... I have a nasty feeling it used tables though! :eek:
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robindaz posted this at 08:28 — 26th July 2005.
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Very brave indeed! I would love to see my first website again, but I think I have deleted it, or lost it somewhere along the way....too bad...
I've also made it about 8 years ago, it was 5 ft long, had a looping midi file (ofcourse) and animated gifs all over the pace haha!
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Megan posted this at 13:19 — 26th July 2005.
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LOL! I actuially bought a CD full of animated GIF's that I was planning on putting on there (well, not the whole CD... just half of it
) Oh, the days when animated gif's were actually cool 
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JeevesBond posted this at 21:51 — 26th July 2005.
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A whole CD?!!! LOL, just the thought of it makes me dizzy!
How retro though. Have you still got it somewhere?
robindaz posted this at 09:48 — 27th July 2005.
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LOL, how about cutting images out of magazines and scanning them, by lack of appropriate pictures for your website haha
Talkfreelance posted this at 11:28 — 27th July 2005.
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lol, that's a great resource for "what not to do" it's a prime example of a website from the 90's era, we have all been there and done it
I actually enjoyed those type of websites, they're fun!
Thanks for sharing the link.
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locatepeople posted this at 14:20 — 3rd August 2005.
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It's kinda like an ex-hippie talking about why he used to wear flairs!
You are pretty brave to post this, but it just goes to show you how much info there is about you on the net. I can see that "about me" page being dug up and emailed to your boss at some point in the future.
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Megan posted this at 13:39 — 8th August 2005.
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Thankfully, that link is broken! I wonder what I put there anyway.... this page just came up through an image search so I doubt anyone would be likely to find it through regular google anyway.
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openhost.us posted this at 22:27 — 3rd August 2005.
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great site
)))
lots of fun and colours...
decibel.places posted this at 03:21 — 15th June 2008.
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ok, here's MY first site, also circa 1997 on GeoCities.
I remember that I couldn't upload images, and I was making arrangements to email them uuencoded, but here I used stock images from the GeoCities sitebuilder app (sooo 1997)
I think I got Megan's background faux-pas beat -- by a mile!
But what I find interesting now, is even then I was interested in sites that "did" something, I created a few slideshow sites using meta http refresh...
GeoCities deleted one I installed at RodeoDrive/1225 about being homeless in NYC at Christmas, and relating current societal attitudes to "the homeless" to the Confinement of mentally ill people at the turn of the 20th century... I guess it was politically objectionable. I think I was making the point that it was permissable to steal food to survive -- bring on Les Miserables!
Then I discovered JavaScript, but I had to sniff out Netscape2 because Microsoft had nifty Jscript features in IE3 (for example NS2 did not support Math.random() -- right?)
Have we come a long way?
greg posted this at 03:58 — 15th June 2008.
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LOL
Megan, 3 years ago you thought your old site was long gone and forgotten, and since then I bet you also forgot about this thread
11 years and still going strong! Check you google adsense account, you might be able to retire!
PS - Nice work on the Canadian flags, I love the way they gently roll gracefully onto the next line
EDIT:
http://members.tripod.com/~MeganJack/meggym.htm
Nice. Navy blue on baby sick green
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decibel.places posted this at 04:10 — 15th June 2008.
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crossbranding didn't work then either!
http://members.tripod.com/~MeganJack/meggym.htm
At the bottom the standard - at the time - (perhaps required?) join up slogan and image for GeoCities...
Except at some point Megan moved the page to Tripod..
And left in the GC slogan AND the gc_icon.gif which of course does not display on Tripod!
B4 I was a web developer I was an archeologist... maybe explains how I look at things...
Megan posted this at 14:27 — 15th June 2008.
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Hey, don't make fun. If you made your first web site in 1997 it would look like this too
decibel.places posted this at 16:02 — 15th June 2008.
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yes, I did make my first web site in 1997 and posted it just above
and it makes Megan's look like the Sistine Chapel
(but just goes to show the difference b/w a designer - Megan - and a developer - me - even at the early stages of the WWW)
greg posted this at 18:49 — 15th June 2008.
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Considering I started only a few years ago with an availability of modern design techniques and decent graphics, my first websites where probably much worse than that.
It's like looking at photos of yourself from the 80's. It was then, that was how we dressed godamit!!
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Greensphere posted this at 12:39 — 15th June 2008.
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I have just had a look for my first ever attempt which was nearly 10 years ago and a hopeless failure (no change there then ha ha) but it is no longer live as the company that was hosting it went bust apparently.
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