Lowering the bar for over a decade

Tom Moertel — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 16:31:00 -0500

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.

"Lowering the bar for over a decade" by Rich W

Sun, 05 Nov 2006 10:00:06 -0500

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.

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