Yesterday I was bored so I decided to look through some of my old design work for some inspiration and came across some screenshots of websites I built back circa 2002-3 which prompted me to go digging deeper.
In a draw I have about 100 CDs mostly MP3 CDs (from back in the day when I had an iRiver IMP 250 MP3 CD player) and a bunch of backup CDs so I got them out and went poking about.
The oldest CD I found was dated 2001, on it I found some of my earliest design work and photography from 1998/1999. The majority of the work wasn’t anything worth writing home about but I did find a few gems amongst my digital junk.
One of the finds was the front page to the very first web site I ever built, “James’ World”. Even by standards back then it was pretty bad. Don’t look at the source code it’s shameful I built the site in Microsoft FrontPage Express 2.0. I’m glad now that it never went live!
Buried in other directories were some old web sites. Of all the web sites only one still worked, the second incarnation of my Groovy James web site. I don’t think it’s that bad even today.
Sadly I lost some old web sites to a HDD crash but luckily some screenshots of those sites survived. Here they are:
