Lowering the bar for over a decade
Posted by Tom Moertel Sat, 04 Nov 2006 21:31:00 GMT
I was roaming through some old files today and stumbled upon a copy of my first web site, called, laughably enough, “The TomZone.” I am not kidding.
You think I’m making this stuff up? Well, feast your eyes on this:
As if that wasn’t bad enough, I scrolled down to the footer and saw this: “Revised: 22 Feb 1996“:
1996! That’s nuts! I’ve been bringing down the quality of the Web for over a decade? It doesn’t seem possible. And yet it’s true: this crap was unleashed upon unsuspecting Web “surfers” ten years ago.
And it’s been going downhill since.
I don’t think there’s anyone out there who was involved in a website in 1996 and can look back and honestly say, “Wow, that was great work that stands up today.”
Exibit A of one I was responsible for, late ‘96 (I didn’t code, just did the architecture).
Although I will say for whatever the design/UI lacked, this site had an impressive homegrown back end CMS for the era. Too bad the wayback machine doesn’t show that tool.