Tonight I was going through some old folders on my parents’ computer and I happened to stumble upon my crowning achievement of the summer of 1998. Back at home after my first year of university, I took summer courses at a nearby community college and spent my spare time (well, my spare time when, um, not fighting off the ladies) with an HTML 4.0 book in hand, designing my first website. I initially started off with enough animated GIFs to make even your average Geocities member cringe, but I eventually settled on an ancient Egyptian theme of all things and created the following monstrosity:

Hosted on my mom’s Earthlink account, I think the site got no more than 20 visitors in total during the year or so that it was up. I even had a guestbook, too, filled with comments such as, “WTF is up with the Egyptian theme?” and “You told me to sign your guestbook, so I’m signing it. Happy now?”

Pretty dreadful, eh?