20 years later – first website
20 years ago I was living in Ottawa, in GIS school and started working with Natural Resources Canada. Fast forward to a few weeks back scanning through old CDROMs and low and behold there was my first ever website. I sat back for a few minutes remembering the details:
- made with Microsoft FrontPage followed by HotDog Express (WYSIWYG HTML editors)! At the time, I was convinced at the time this was the only way to be an HTML programmer
- the website first made it to the Internet in March 1998 and bounced around a few places:
- http://alqonquinc.on.ca/~kral0003 (Algonquin College account)
- http://chat.carleton.ca/~279186 (Carleton University account)
- http://nrcan.gc.ca/~tkralidi/ (work account)
- http://www.storm.ca/~tommy (Storm Internet who provided awesome service)
- Concerned that this wasn’t enough, I was motivated to host the site on my own, with a real domain and so on. I bought Red Hat Linux 6 Server by Mohammed J. Kabir (great book!) and learned how to put up a server and website from the ground up (DNS, firewall, services, etc.), killing an entire weekend
- the website then finally found a permanent home at http://kralidis.ca
Soon after learning Linux a few months later, I was motivated to rewrite the site in pure HTML, by hand. From there I added a picture gallery, source code, blog, and so on.
I continue to post to the blog, but things like GitHub, Twitter, Facebook, etc. provide similar capabilities without the hosting maintenance/hassle.
Anyways, I’ve posted it at http://kralidis.ca/misc/firstwebsite/ — enjoy!
Do you have your first website? Still online? Feel free to share memories and experiences!
