Crystal Web

So, 15 years ago yesterday, the Web was really born. Happy Crystal anniversary, Internet.

I first got online properly back in about ’92-’93, which was through a JANET line from Oxford University. A whole 9.6Kbps ( 9,600baud ) – for a university computer centre. I went on a couple of bulletin boards in the US, and while it was OK, and really pretty impressive to be able to be doing computer stuff trans-Atlantically, but still, well, it wasn’t really all that great.

Then in ’96 I worked briefly for a medical company doing some of the first websites. They were promoting their stuff internationally, and created a website to do it. And the beast started from there. Before long I was doing websites, and had my own personal one. (Thankfully, time has since deleted that monstrosity from history) I moved on to work for another company that did online versions of various academic magazines, and worked with SGML and XML. And since then, for the last ten years, I’ve been working on websites. And for the last four I’ve been writing D4D™ too – which is pretty scary in itself.