by Midge Frazel
On December 2, 1996, I posted my first Web page to the Internet. I created it with Claris Home Page which I won at a MacWorld in Boston the previous August.
Joe Souza helped me learn to FTP and encouraged me to learn to write pages. After meeting Kathy Schrock, I began to write pages (in HTML) with her help too.
I can't believe it has been ten years! I feel like a pioneer.
Photo of Midge taken by Heather on Thanksgiving Morning at Midge's home in Bridgewater, MA.
2 comments:
Happy anniversary, Midge! My first Web page was made in Claris HomePage as well! And I think it might have also been 1996. I recently went searching on my hard drive for the HTML files, but I don't think they were saved. After all, that was a long time ago. :-) But I remember making the site with a sixth grade student as part of my social studies methods class. We used an early digital camera to document how to make new paper from recycled paper. It was a really fun project. Ahhhh, memories...
Dear Midge,
Happy Birthday to the site (and to you, today!) And best wishes for many more!
I still have my original site on a floppy (take note, Tony, we left-brainers always keep old stuff!) although I do not have the card box with all of the Gopher and Web links on the 400 cards from which I created the site...that would be the thing I wish I had saved! I do still have Laura Lemay's first book "Teach Yourself HTML in a Week" from which I learned to code, though!
My site was done in a simple HTML editor, back in June of 1995. No WYSIWYG editor for me. I actually still code by hand today. It is an obsession, I guess!
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