My First Web Page

Followup to addendum to previous entry: a quick perusal of old email archives suggests that, though I'd been an avid Websurfer since sometime in '93 or '94, I didn't have my own pages online 'til early '95. Kinda fun to look at those old emails from '94, where I kept saying things like "If you have access to the World Wide Web" and "I'm sorry for talking about the Web all the time even though many of you can't get to it" and so on.

Also interesting to see how hard it was to find stuff if you didn't bookmark it in those pre-AltaVista (and very pre-Google) days.

And to see that one very tech-savvy friend (I won't embarrass anyone by naming names) was predicting in early '95 that the Net would imminently become overloaded with traffic, making it so slow that nobody would want to use it, and resulting in legislation limiting use.

The "Web authoring and serving solution" that I was working on was called WebFORCE. Back in the days when I could comment to Ranjit that he was one of the relatively few people who'd done Web design professionally. How things change. It's only been eight years. . . .

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