For old times’ sake
Do you remember the last time someone confronted you with some of your early work? Yesterday during a meeting an old friend pointed out to me that one of the first public sites we ever made was still online. So today just before shutting down my pc I googled for the site and yes, there it was: the 1996 first edition of the Suikerrock rockfestival website!
For those of you who still wanna see an authentic 1996 site you can follow the link at the bottom. But don’t say I didn’t warn you.
I won’t bother you with a screenshot because remember: this is a 1996 site. Not much dynamic, just a basic *single* static html page with -wow- images and yes, can you believe it: some sound samples and a hitcounter at the bottom of the page.
If you look at it from today’s standards it’s hardly worthy of receiving any mention in a blog item. In fact it kinda looks like a modern site with the CSS styles turned off. But still: this humble page was the beginning of an online career…
If I remember correctly I created the html visually with the very first version of a (at that time) revolutionary program called Adobe Pagemill 1.0 . Now THAT brings back memories…
A year later, in 1997, Adobe Pagemill got fierce competition from a promising new program called Dreamweaver made by Macromedia. And oh irony, many years later Adobe would buy Macromedia and in turn become the owner of their competitor…
A visit to the hitcounter stats of the ‘96 site was interesting:
Do people still visit this prehistoric one page? In the 12 years since it’s been online there have been 4,677 pageviews and amazingly, the busiest day so far was the 12th of March 2001 - exactly 7 years ago on the day of my writing this blog item. I wonder what makes people visit this one page rocksite ‘in mass’ 5 years after it went online?
Anyway. On this nostalgic note I’ll shut down my pc.
Bye summer of 96! (or was that…)
Still wanna have a peek? Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Here is the link: Suikerrock 1996
Ah.. and did I mention it’s completely in Dutch? It is.
