Excepting my illustrious Usenet career, this is what my first sustained online presence looked like.
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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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. 🙂
I would call five of them easy, three of them hard, and two of them really hard.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).