Looking backwards
With the recent (ahem) discussion between Becky and Siobhan over who exactly invented the tranny weblog... it got me thinking about just how long I have been doing websites.
I remembered a handy little site called the Wayback Machine that claims to record previous versions of websites, and lets you roll back the internet to have a look at the early versions.
According to that, my first geocities site at http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/6403/ began life on January 17th 1999. Now I am sure I had an earlier version of the site, but this is the earliest one that exists on the wayback machine.
When geocities allowed you to have a nicer web address I changed it to http://www.geocities.com/joanna_tvuk in October 2000.
The Joannas Diary web address was purchased in and around April 2001, where it has lived ever since.
In different versions of the site, there has been a diary of sorts where I mentioned places that I had been... although I would never claim it was anything like a blog of any shape or size.
Taking at look at the early versions of my site is rather scary. Almost as scary as the realization of just how long I have been an internet tranny. My first boy site, created in notepad and uploaded to my new Demon internet space shortly after demon switched from a dos front end to a windows one with Netscape dates back to December 1996!!!! Bloody hell now that makes me feel old. (and my god is it an awful site!)
I remembered a handy little site called the Wayback Machine that claims to record previous versions of websites, and lets you roll back the internet to have a look at the early versions.
According to that, my first geocities site at http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/6403/ began life on January 17th 1999. Now I am sure I had an earlier version of the site, but this is the earliest one that exists on the wayback machine.
When geocities allowed you to have a nicer web address I changed it to http://www.geocities.com/joanna_tvuk in October 2000.
The Joannas Diary web address was purchased in and around April 2001, where it has lived ever since.
In different versions of the site, there has been a diary of sorts where I mentioned places that I had been... although I would never claim it was anything like a blog of any shape or size.
Taking at look at the early versions of my site is rather scary. Almost as scary as the realization of just how long I have been an internet tranny. My first boy site, created in notepad and uploaded to my new Demon internet space shortly after demon switched from a dos front end to a windows one with Netscape dates back to December 1996!!!! Bloody hell now that makes me feel old. (and my god is it an awful site!)
posted by Joanna @ 6/07/2005 07:31:00 PM
2 Comments:
At June 07, 2005 8:53 PM,
Siobhan Curran said…
December '96? OK, you beat me by six months ;)
Funny looking back at all that stuff isn't it? I remember the excitement of realising that my Compuserve account had an actual proper email address ;) I also remember making my first web page, and thinking "Urgh - grey background! How do I get rid of that?"
At June 07, 2005 11:29 PM,
Rachel said…
Never had a compuserve address, but like you Siobhan I remember the changeover to real names. It must have been around the time of the new Netscape version - number 2 - well before Bill Gates thought the Internet would 'catch on' ROFL. How come he got where he is today, amazing!
I know I had a geocities web page, funnily enough it was grey, too.
TV Dreams was registered on 26-Aug-1999 and as I was paranoid (in the days before you could hide the registrant's address) I used a false address, one JL might think familiar, oops.
And the cost of searching all those trannie sites whilst on AOL, doesn't bear thinking about.
Does anyone remember the unofficial Northern Concord site, heaps better than the one today, and so well connected - I reckon that was the centre of the trannie web in those days - just a mass of links.
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