Booting Up: Zuck’s First Website Was Just as Embarrassing as Yours
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I found "the Web" page interesting. 4 years before "The Facebook", it seems like the idea of showing real-life people connections was already vivid in his mind.
Direct link to Mark's website: http://www.angelfire.com/ny/mez51/
Seeing a site like this would be quite a relief for me. No crazy frames, or bad graphics, clean, functional, to the point.
However, is this a typical path? Today I'd guess many build "sites" using Tumblr, Blogger, or Wordpress before picking up development skills. Even those stumbling through Rails or the like can drop in Twitter Bootstrap with little fanfare and have a pretty decent looking first effort.
Mainly though - Here is the legacy of everything remembered forever. Anyone that gets big or rich or famous from now onwards will have had some sort of footprint on the web, and people will find it.
The big question is whether we start judging people harshly based on this (as we do with politicians already) or if we as a society can finally mature, move on, and allow people to have a past.
A lot of websites in the late 90s looked like this, Web 2.0 huge buttons was not a thing yet (neither was CSS for the most part) and a huge background image would have taken days to load.
People are forgetting that technology 15 years ago wasn't like today. Oh and he was a kid. To me this site is cool, and it brings good memories of old web.