Remember when you had a “home page”?

Excepting my illustrious Usenet career, this is what my first sustained online presence looked like.

argiopesabode

This is the Play page. I would like to show you the front page, but I may not have it anymore. It’s not anywhere easy to find, anyway.

I put that site up in 1999 and updated it a time or two a week until I started this blog in late 2006. Interesting that I can see common visual threads between what I like now and what I liked 16 years ago.

Some of it was a bit bloggish, but mostly it was photos and links. I wrote a thumbnail menu structure in HoTMetaL that I liked and stubbornly used it all the way out, even when numerous objectively better alternatives were available.

Still out there and live: My Top 100 Pop Songs of the 1980s.

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7 thoughts on “Remember when you had a “home page”?”

  1. The first person who correctly identifies all ten of those people wins lunch with me. Or, comparable Amazon.com credit if that doesn’t sound like fun. 🙂

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  2. I can name 4 for sure…not sure who the middle woman is on the top row, but wouldn’t mind knowing! I enjoyed going through your 100 songs…I think the last time I looked you had not quite completed it.

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    • Really? I was calling her one of the easy ones. That photo was taken about 1967. Does that help?

      Thanks! It’s a fun list to look back over now. On some things I’ve drifted, but not a lot.

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  3. Ok, I was trying to place that face in the 80s…I know exactly who that is now. I forgot to mention that I thought it was strange that Michael Jackson was not featured more prominently (at all?) on your list.

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    • Yes, that wound up being an anomaly and slight regret. The list is tilted new wave, just because that’s how it happened when I started thinking about it. That hurt Michael Jackson’s chances.

      “Billie Jean” should be on the list.

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  4. There’s some sort of cache service ( I think it’s via Google) that can probably find your homepage. I was really surprised when it turned up pages I created in 1996/97 that I thought were gone for good (and kind of wished they were).

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