Both Nancy and Brian pointed me in the direction of archive.org to see if any of my early webpages are recoverable. So I went there, and put in the URL of my Georgia Tech webpage, hit the “take me back” button and…blocked. By the JSC firewall. Something about proxy avoidance. So I’ll have to try it at home tonight.
It will be really cool if I can find my earliest Tech webpage. Finding my very first webpage, however, may be a problem because I’m not sure I can remember the URL.
Update: Holy crap! In trying to remember the very old URL of my first webpage in 1995/1996, I googled the two terms I remembered. Lo and behold, I found the link. The last version of the page, from 1996 right after I started at Georgia Tech, is still there. (Though the redirect to the Georgia Tech servers now fails, since I haven’t been a student there in almost 4 years.)
AND I managed to guess the name of my very, very first webpage, a summary of my IB extended essay that I made when I used the essay as my senior exit essay for high school: The Race to the Moon. At the bottom is says: “This page was created by me, a senior IB student at Myers Park High School. Last updated on May 15, 1996.”
The internet is amazing!!
Let’s see, my first web page was a geocities page that I made in high school (in the “Cape Canaveral” neighborhood). That’s gone. Followed by my equally ugly GT web page (I liked animated gifs, what can I say). Anyway, I’ll have to look on archives.org to see if I can find them.
I remember you making that… ha! I thought it was funny that Mom and Dad still have the same email address too, from all the way back then.
Hmmm..my first page doesn’t seem to be in the archive, or I’m remembering it wrong.
What was the address for our pages from Tech? It’s esacaping me at the moment..