{"id":6780,"date":"2018-07-16T15:32:12","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T22:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=6780"},"modified":"2020-10-18T11:43:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T18:43:07","slug":"my-first-web-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2018\/07\/16\/my-first-web-page\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Web Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The subject of old websites came up on a Facebook thread yesterday, particularly pages created on various platforms that are now extinct, like sff.net or compuserve.com. Long before I created this blog, first in Blogger and then in WordPress, I created a homepage on Compuserve.com, then along with AOL.com the hotbed of online interaction. It&#8217;s nowhere on the web itself that I can find &#8212; not via Wayback Machine or any such place &#8212; but I found my local copy, on my harddrive, and uploaded it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/CompuServeHomepage.html\">here<\/a>. Let&#8217;s see if the link works&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Yup. Note that I was learning html at the time and playing around with table tags and table cell coloring. Thus the entire page has no links to graphics or anything; the coloring is all done via table cell color tags. Moreover, the colors are mixes of three basic settings, for each of R,G,B: either 00, FF, or 69. <\/p>\n<p>This page links to several samples of the short fiction review column I was writing for <i>Locus<\/i> Magazine at the time. I did the column from 1988 to 2001. Looking back at them&#8230;.they&#8217;re not bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The subject of old websites came up on a Facebook thread yesterday, particularly pages created on various platforms that are now extinct, like sff.net or compuserve.com. Long before I created this blog, first in Blogger and then in WordPress, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2018\/07\/16\/my-first-web-page\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6780"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6784,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780\/revisions\/6784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}