JeevesBond — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:07:06 +0000

Double-wow! That's amazing, every site... Have you found any that still work, I tried a couple but generally get a 404 - not suprising as they're so ancient - even if: "A cool URI doesn't change"

andy206uk — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 00:38:03 +0000

Look... this page lists ALL of the other websites online!

http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html

It's only about a page long!

Abhishek Reddy — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 22:31:52 +0000

I notice there's no copyright note at the bottom of that page.

JeevesBond — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:40:30 +0000

Andy, that is amazing... I love it - they really had no idea what the web was going to blossom into!

*EDIT*
When the site is finished make sure you put a post in the critique area!

andy206uk — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 17:27:09 +0000

This might help you... It's the first ever webpage:

http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

CptAwesome — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 06:26:47 +0000

Who doesn't love Wikipedia?

Quote: The development of Photoshop started in 1987 by the brothers Thomas Knoll and John Knoll, although it was not until 1990 that the program was first released by Adobe.

Source

Roo — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 06:21:13 +0000

Photoshop 1 shipped in 1990 I believe.

CptAwesome — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 06:19:14 +0000

One thing about older pages is they were very graphically reduced because space used to be at a premium, and there weren't as advanced graphic editors, not sure when Adobe Photoshop first arrived.

Kls — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 01:10:40 +0000

Thanks Megan, looking on archive.org is an excellent idea. I should have tried that before I posted this but I didn’t think of it.

As for the question of why, well nostalgia basically. The rest of the site, a phpBB forum and what ever other odds and ends I feel like uploading will be done in less eccentric style. It’s an idea I’ve had for sometime and mostly people may not get it but, hey, it’ll be my site and I can do what I want on it!

Whenever, if ever, I get it up and running I’ll try to remember to give you a link. Thanks again.

Megan — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 14:18:13 +0000

Why do you want to do this? I'm just curious really. Sounds like an interesting project.

Here is the w3c page on HTML 2.0: http://www.w3c.org/MarkUp/html-spec/
Here is the spec: http://www.w3c.org/MarkUp/html-spec/

I don't know how you'd go about finding sites written that long ago... You would try archive.org to look up old versions of major sites. I'm sure there are still a lot of live sites that look like they were coded that long ago!