Disclaimer

First off let me say that I am by no means an authority on web technology, I wanted to re-do my website and part of that is making content. Writing is one of the things that I really suck at doing so I’m basically forcing myself to do it here, and part of that is discussing the technologies I’ve used over the years to build it.

How my websites were built

The early days

Back in the mid to late 90s, around the time I was graduating from college, the web started to become a thing. It was this neat new tool that would allow you build something that anyone in the world could see. The functionality was pretty limited and a good portion of the content was written in HTML (hypertext markup language), by hand, in text files and had to be set up manually on your system (usually in a directory like ~\public_html\). You had to set permissions and do all sorts of crazy stuff to make it work and even beyond that you had to have access to a computer system that allowed you to host websites.