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September 19, 2007

10 Years of Rohdesign.com

This morning iCal beeped at me, as it sometimes does, though today's message kinda surprised me:

rohdesign.com 10 is years old!

Wow, 10 years! Time has passed qucikly since registering rohdesign.com in 1997.

So much has changed. When I first registered the domain, I was using Adobe PageMill to build my sites, fighting with layout quirks and strange code that seemed to appear when layouts got a bit too complex. What painful days they were.

I had a "Home Page" back then, and I was migrating from a tiny bit of space on AOL's servers, provided as a subscriber. I'd run into limitations with the space, was struggling with PageMill and it was time to take the next step.

I was playing with BBEdit by then, learning how HTML code worked, how to create fast-loading images, exploring FTP posting to my new space with Anarchie.

1997 was also the year I seriously considered joining Matt Henderson in his new company ExpoNet, which later became MakaluMedia, and visited Germany for the 3rd time, to attend the wedding of my friends Martin and Thea.

It's wild to see how far the web has come since 1997, and how I and my friends have changed in 10 years. In some ways I could never have imagined how different 2007 would look, while in other ways, how many things have remained the same.

Happy birthday Rohdesign.com! :-)

September 19, 2007 5:11 PM | Observations | add to del.icio.us