So finally I have dedicated some time to do research for this post. Here you go
1999, sometime in November, armed with a brand new 28.8 kbps dial-up internet connection, I began my first endeavour on the Internet. I uploaded my first webpage. I still remember how exciting it was back then; to see my HTMLs being served for the first time to people around the world. So here I present a ‘Rusty’ museum of sorts; with screenshots of how this website evolved into what you see now. It was a great nostalgic trip back; seeing all these sites again
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This was the first version; hosted at spaceports.com. I was still learning how things were working. Notice the awful choice of colours!
Even worse colour comibination; but now with more content and also the hottest retro thing on the web - Java! (the left nav bar)
Things are getting way better now; the colours don’t hurt the eyes much. Not too much improvement with the content though; except for the embaressing bio-data up front
The first ‘real’ design. Java is gone, CSS comes in. Design is still very teenage; with a goofy name for the site ‘SmileHouse’! But this really special; because this was when I started writing my blog
I had also shifted to a much better host called DigitalRice.
CSS skills have improved beyond recognition! I really loved this design. The site has become more dynamic; as I had finally learned some PHP. The blogging system there was hand coded in PHP. And this time the site moved to paid hosting; even though I never really paid
It was hosted for me by Vishnu and Vivek at sig9.com
And finally the base for the current design. I also dumped my buggy blog engine for Wordpress. And around 1.5 years after this; I finally had registered a domain for myself. The hosting also slowly shifted to asmallorange.com; with the space provided by Anand bhai. It has remained there ever since.
You can also browse some of the sites from the Internet archive:
It was hardwork to get this done; I had to find my old hard disks; then get it working and so on.. but it was all worth it. Special thanks to Shyam for letting me plug-in my dusty 10 year old HDD on his PC!









January 31st, 2010 at 3:15 pm
10 years back when we were watching __ movies u started web development… kidu..
February 3rd, 2010 at 2:54 pm
Den of coolest Knaps.. he he…. But 10 yrs were really cool…
February 3rd, 2010 at 6:11 pm
@Hazer: __ movies? What do you mean? :p
@Sandeep: Entheda cool alle?