Oops, there goes our anniversary. On 31 May 2007 this site turned twelve years old. Ah, memories! Who can forget …
- Gifplex (1995, an early “web multimedia” art experiment)
- The Ad Graveyard (real ads that almost ran, 1995–1998)
- Pardon My Icons (unusual icons for your desktop or website, 1995–1998)
- 15 Minutes (interviews with movie stars and “cyber stars,” 1996–1999)
- Ask Dr Web (an early guide to designing websites; taken offline because the presentational HTML techniques it advocated have long since become outdated thanks to web standards)
- Mr Jenkins’s Last Martini (1996, the web’s first alcoholic haiku contest)
… and all the other juicy Web 1.0 Goodness™. Not to mention a couple dozen discarded designs, legions of obsolete splash pages, and a certain Daily Report that was initially dumped onto a page called coming.html and maintained daily and steadily for years before it became conscious of itself, acquired a title, and moved to the site’s front page.
The web found me and claimed me. Everything else followed. Maybe you feel that way, too. Thank you for what you bring to the web, and thank you for twelve years or your part of it.
“The independent publisher refuses to die.”
Related
- Daily Reports from 1997 On
- You don’t need the WayBack machine to go way back in zeldman.com history. Enjoy these representative Daily Report pages from 1997 on (including the famous HTML Fist).
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