Way back in, what looks like 2001 – 2005 … huh? … I would have thought it was earlier than that. But,, I digress. I built a website for my father for his company Data Plus.
I had some programming experience but not that much really. I had written bits of pieces of stuff in Basic. Games and such and I had recently begun building websites in Flash. He handed me an HTML book and asked me to start building and populating pages of products. I immediately recognized that this was going to be very tedious and that it could be automated using server-side code. So, I picked up a few books on ASP VBSCRIPT and SQL and started coding. I built a simple CMS long before I knew what a CMS was that aloud me to build a web catalog of 1000’s of products.
The website used a lot of Flash. Not as the actual website but for animations and ads and such. Pages where the content was fully Flash I detected the we crawler and if it was Google then I would feed a regular web page rich with text content and keywords to get better ranking.
The way back machine obviously cannot render this Flash and it didn’t record many of the images and so what it is in the following images is pretty ugly.
Not that it was ever the roof of the Sistine Chapel.
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