An Anthology of Personal Websites

I’ve maintained a personal website since I got to college in 1998. My first few sites were hand-coded html and resided on the university’s Solaris server. Along the way, I tried Geocities, Microsoft Front Page, Dreamweaver, Blogger, and iWeb. At no point during the first decade did I manage to create a readable website.

/~mjm9

  • 1998 – 2000
    This page is wonderfully bad. All it’s missing is an “under construction” animated gif. And WTF was I thinking when I collected these “ very useful or interesting links.” Ponderous.
  • August 2001
    I think I built this page by hand with html and css. If you click around you’ll see I was into fencing at this time.
  • December 2001
    A friend helped me build this version using Dreamweaver. Each cell of the navigation menu was an image, but they don’t all show up here. I probably have a copy of the original code on a Zip Drive somewhere.
  • May 2004
    This is the only remaining evidence that I wrote my own blogging engine in PHP. The project lived at a different URL which was not scraped by archive.org.
  • August 2004
    Looks like I tried Blogger for the first time. Wow, I’d totally forgotten that I’d written about my trips to Italy and Mexico.

matthew-morris.com

  • November 2006
    This one was built with iWeb and lived on shared hosting somewhere.

mattmorr.is and matt.ph

  • 2012 Onward
    I used Octopress, etc., on these domains. I’ve done scripted migrations from one platform to the other, but it looks like some of my old posts are missing.