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Born in 91, I was the perfect age to be obsessed with Harry Potter. When I was around ten, an older kid in the neighborhood helped me make a Harry Potter themed website using FrontPage (the Express version I think it was named).

Small, random event that end up having a big effect on my life. My hobbies, what&where I chose to study, the friends I got there etc. I can trace back to this.

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Oh man, I had a similar experience around 2000. I built a Danish website about Goldeneye 64 in FrontPage. The first website I ever made. It used frames, but I feel it was quite pleasing on the eyes, because I avoided a lot of the 'fancy effects' that was common for the time.

I'll admit, being born in 87, most of the site was simply copied from other websites about the game, and translated to Danish. So it was a decent exercise - particularly for someone dyslexic as me - to both built a website and translate from English to Danish.

If only I knew where that website ended up...

Born in 89, I made a webpage for my mother at that time. She still likes it :/

Check the generator tag on the frameset page http://www.roswithavanderzander.de/index_EN.htm

It can use some minimal styling but much better than loading 100MB to see less content. I say great job :)

It loads fast. It’s easy to navigate. With just a little bit of work, it would be more appealing than most “modern” web page.

This page is great. It loads instantly, shows you the content up front, has clear navigation, and has clear contrast between elements.

Also, it has frames, which I honestly miss even though I am glad we have moved past them.

Why did and does everyone hate frames so much? Do they not have their place even on modern sites sometimes? (Even if they aren't technically frames?) The top bar of Google Docs is a visual frame and it seems appropriate to me.

And frames have a feature I love that's almost never implemented nowadays: You can click+drag the border to freely resize the frames and see the content better.

I really dig your mom's erh.. organic art.

web.archive.org supports keyword search, you can try find it that way.

Similar story for me, but with a Dragonball Z fan site. Internet, I'm sorry.

Made a Pokemon fan site, must have been 9 or something, I didn't know how to link to other pages, so everything was one page and links worked via anchors...

I attempted to make a pokemon battle system in front page by linking pages and hard coding each action.

Oh man, me too. I couldn’t figure out anything about dynamic web pages except that I needed a host with “cgi-bin support”. I wanted to build a Neopets alternative, and when I couldn’t figure out how to do anything dynamic, I figured I could just build out a new page for every combination of variables that could change.

I was like, 7, so my math skills didn’t really allow me to understand the scope of the number of pages that would be required.

But god damn if I didn’t have a blast trying.

I made a Nintendo fan site with FrontPage 2000 (well the first version was made with Word which made atrocious HTML but I migrated quickly).

It was complete with all the expected features of the time, including an autoplaying MIDI Pokémon background music, Comic Sans everywhere and 3D rotating text gifs made with Xara X3D. Oh and moving text in the status bar.

I'm not sorry at all though.

Me too. Midis and comet cursor. Sorry

Ditto, but with Power Rangers. I think I was 13.

Wow, I would have loved to be friends with all the guys in this thread. I didn't have a single friend with this kind of interests, none of my friends would be interested in creating stuff instead of just consuming it.

Are you sure you are not me? We have the same past it seems.

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