I had an idea to interview everyone I knew and publish them online, but first I needed a site. I picked Tripod and for some reason made it completely pink. Every single thing. Pink. None of my friends even had the internet, but I only managed to talk two people into letting me i…
In 1998 there were about 3 million websites. Mine was one of them. It was not my first website - that I built in 1994 in HTML but without a provider. And the domain was different. My first website was chocolate.pages.vossnet.de or something like that. The current domain, chocola…
Optional link: chocolatecheese.deIt was Christmas day 1986. I hadn’t slept the night before because I knew that sat under the tree was likely to be a brand new shiny Commodore 64 with monitor and 5 ¼ inch floppy drive to replace my Oric Atmos. I wasn’t disappointed either – that morning changed everything. Alre…
Flash website: select a navigation button,a trapdoor opens and the button drops through and is left hanging. Added accompanying chain creaking sounds effects when the trap was reset and the button was "reeled" back onto the navigation area. The trap is reset, ready for it's next…
I wanted to learn .NET MVC, so I decided to make it a little fun. I built a deadly little game where you have to answer 8 questions. Answer each question within 8 seconds: ✅ Correct: +3 ❌ Incorrect: -1 ⏭️ Skipped: 0 And the best part? The person at the top of the scoreboard wins…
Before Spotify, before YouTube and even before BitTorrent took over, I spent time in an mIRC community called The Borg Collective. It was one of those underground IRC chat rooms where people gathered to chat, queue for downloads and share huge collections of MP3 files. If you wa…
Back when Google was in its infancy, Yahoo was meh, and AskJeeves was just terrible, we had webrings. You'd find a site on something you were interested in, and at the bottom of the page, there'd be a thing saying the name of the webring that site belonged to, along with "back"…
Back around 2000 I built a batch-file landing page generator. It took keywords, HTML templates, affiliate links and banners, then spat out 1000's of pages. Uploaded them through Silicon Valley Web Hosting's upload form 5 at a time. They’d mostly rank #1 or #2 in Google, and my k…