I have an ancient blog

I did a google search on myself on the 10-year anniversary site of Google. Google's oldest index they could find was in 2001. On it, you can see my website in it's early early glory, and boy - I still really like the design of that site. It was before all these blogs were cookie-cutter, Web 2.0 garbage, and I am going to sound like a grandpa here, but back in the day, when you had to write your own HTML code...

You have to imagine buttons along the left - for some reason the crawlers and indexers didn't pick those up in the archive, but they were just grey text buttons as a menu along the left.

I really like my swoop design though - I put a lot of time into that in my single days, and I think it was the furthest I ever went with web design, before I realized I was out of my league and I should leave it to the professionals. I've taken design classes and have it in my blood - I miss graphic design quite a bit. I think my site presaged a lot of what was to come, linking to friends, talking about life...

Thanks for the memories... Google, but more importantly the Web Archive project.