Has anyone made some websites in their earlier days that totally crashed and burned? (besides @Chammy !)
The very first website I made was called ScreamWorld (so this must have been around 1998!) and I used my 5MB of webspace to create a website dedicated to the Scream movies. Of course, back then there was no Wordpress sites so unless you were going to sit and code HTML you had to use the likes of FrontPage98 or Dreamweaver to create your site!
I'm 99% sure I also created a fan site dedicated to the band Counting Crows
Next, I created a website dedicated to the Worms series of games offering people to download maps for the game etc.
During the days of Wimamp hitting the scene I created 'DarkHoleFM' with a friend which was an 'as live' Internet Radio show that was broadcast over Shoutcast and had a website attached to it.
I also created a recruitment website for people in Norwich which I thought was an amazing idea and was basically the 'Reed' website ahead of its time but my version was just me finding vacancies in the paper or in shop windows and adding them to the website...
After that, I created what could only be called a 'photo blog' site of my time at University. Every page had these GIANT images which back then took a day and a half to load each time lol
I created a website called 'ItsInHeadingley' or something which was about the student area on Leeds and everything it had going on in it!
Next up came a Hayfever Forum of all things. Forums back in 2004 either required you to spend a monumental amount of money on software like VBulletin or you could create a forum off one of the 'services' offering them for free with ads which is what I did with a bolted on domain I bought from 123reg! I opened it in March of the year and it was MEGA BUSY for around 5 months after that however what I soon discovered was that for 7 or 8 months of the year no one wanted to talk about all things hayfever related LOL
After that I sort of didn't return to running a website until I started all thing money shed related!!
Anyone else have a history of failure like this?
it's mad to think how you used to get 5MB/10MB free with your dial up Internet Connection and now much HDR Pics are over 5MB in size anyway!!
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