Mike's Blog
My First Website
I'm super glad to see today that the first ever website I made is still online that first went up in 1999. Well, I say it's online but 'being cached' is admittedly the more accurate description. This snapshot from archive.org from 2001 has features that include a JavaScript powered "today's date" compoment that seems to be suffering from some kind of millenium bug (just kidding) and a form-to-email page that has field validation and, wait for it, pop-up windows!
I must have copied the JavaScript from various places and then hacked it to get it working. From my vague recollection it was a Perl CGI script on the backend that was processing the form submissions that I probably took from somewhere like Matt's Scripts. It makes me feel old but at least I can say I have been an official nerd (and user of the command line via PuTTY) for nearly fifteen years!