https://kralidis.ca/blog/2018-04-15T20:03:00+00:002018-04-15T20:03:00+00:002018-04-15T20:03:00+00:00tomkralidistag:kralidis.ca,2018-04-15:/blog/blog/2018/04/15/20-years-later-first-website/

<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998">20 years ago</a> I was living in Ottawa, in GIS school and started working with <a href="https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/home">Natural Resources Canada</a>.  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:</p> <ul> <li>made …</li></ul>

<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998">20 years ago</a> I was living in Ottawa, in GIS school and started working with <a href="https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/home">Natural Resources Canada</a>.  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:</p> <ul> <li>made with<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_FrontPage"> Microsoft FrontPage</a> 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</li> <li>the website first made it to the Internet in March 1998 and bounced around a few places:</li> <li>http://alqonquinc.on.ca/~kral0003 (Algonquin College account)</li> <li>http://chat.carleton.ca/~279186 (Carleton University account)</li> <li>http://nrcan.gc.ca/~tkralidi/ (work account)</li> <li>http://www.storm.ca/~tommy (<a href="https://www.storm.ca/">Storm Internet</a> who provided awesome service)</li> <li>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 <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Red-Hat-Linux-6-Server/dp/0764533371">Red Hat Linux 6 Server by Mohammed J. Kabir</a> (great book!) and learned how to put up a server and website from the ground up (DNS, firewall, services, etc.), killing an entire weekend</li> <li>the website then finally found a permanent home at http://kralidis.ca</li> </ul> <p>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.</p> <p>I continue to post to the blog, but things like GitHub, Twitter, Facebook, etc. provide similar capabilities without the hosting maintenance/hassle.</p> <p>Anyways, I've posted it at <a href="http://kralidis.ca/misc/firstwebsite/">http://kralidis.ca/misc/firstwebsite/</a> -- enjoy!</p> <p>Do you have your first website?  Still online?  Feel free to share memories and experiences!</p>