A decade of web presence

Spent my whole day cleaning up home…

I came across a bunch of CD albums. haha… can’t hide my geek root. I do have a few CD albums for keeping CDs and DVDs I burnt throughout the years. haha… a pretty old school and 宅男 behaviour.

But, it’s 2010… I decided to dump all disks and keep stuff in my 1TB FW800 drive. Among all the useless disks, I found a few backup CDs. I don’t really remember what’s in there but I do know that the stuff there are important as history of me. I loaded the disk into my Macbook Pro. Within seconds, most of my early traces with PCs and Macs are recovered.

I found some Pure Math notes. That’s when I studied Form 6 and 7.

Though I have virtually forgotten all those stuff :P , it brings back the memory of the last decade… The secondary school years where life is simple and free. It’s always about studying and performing well in exam. :)

I also found my lab report in collage. I still recall cramming in late night making up fake experiment data trying to finish up the report. :P

My random walk through the backup also brings me to something remarkable – my first web site!!

my first site

Haha… it was up in from 1999 to, roughly, 2002. It was hosted in the server space provided by HKU to its students. (not sure if students nowadays still get web hosting service from computer center…) The current site should be the 3rd generation which first made public in 2005.

It’s so much fun thumbing through my first site. :) Pictures of the old days… the very typical Geocities-like design. It’s so much fun to witness the advancement of web technologies and be one of the practitioners.

Some much have changed in the past decade… One interesting thing is… Pages works with my 10-year-old Word doc file and Safari works with my equally old web site. I am lucky that I don’t have files in “word star” format :P

One side note… do u recall how Apple’s web site looks like 10 years ago?