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<h1 class="project-header"><a href="../index.html">Shannon Kay</a></h1>
<h2>Classic Homepage Project</h2>
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<h3 id="why-make-a-classic-homepage">Why make a classic homepage?</h3>
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<li>Own your web presence.</li>
<li>Recapture the joy of the internet.</li>
<li>Be creative</li>
<li>Content that does not have to be an update. (But you can still have updates)</li>
<li>Just making web pages about things that you like.</li>
<li>A small batch website</li>
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<h3 id="my-website-story">My Website Story</h3>
<p>I&#39;m an &#34;early Millennial&#34;. My first websites were homepages with rainbow dividers. In 1995, when I was 12, my dad bought me a book called <a href="https://openlibrary.org/books/OL822310M/Internet_and_World_Wide_Web_simplified">Internet and World Wide Web, Simplified</a>. That&#39;s how I learned how the internet worked, and that I should pronounce GIF &#34;like the peanut butter&#34;.</p>
<p>My first websites were free homepages. The first was on a website called <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/19970628183245/http://www.tool-box.com/">tool-box </a>which didn't last long and I've never heard anyone else mention. I think it only existed in 1996/97. I moved on to other free hosts like Angelfire, and moved from using the basic form page editors to learning basic html. But the real magic happened after I saw the movie Titanic in January of 1998. I loved it so much, I made a Titanic website called Titanic Crazy. My first fansite! </p>
<p>Working on my Titanic website is what really led to my learning more about making websites and how the internet worked. Soon I was making websites for all of my friends. I even got to redesign the website for my high school theatre department. </p>
<p>For my sixteenth birthday, I asked for a domain name. I got my first domain name, <strong>shannonkay.com</strong>, in 1999 as a present for my 16th birthday. </p>
<h3>Links</h3>
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<li><a href="https://stackingthebricks.com/how-blogs-broke-the-web/">How the Blog Broke the Web</a></li>
<li><a href="https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden">My blog is a digital garden, not a blog</a></li>
<li><a href="https://matthiasott.com/notes/the-year-of-the-personal-website">The Year of the Personal Website</a></li>
<li><a href="https://localghost.dev/blog/building-a-website-like-it-s-1999-in-2022">Building a website like it's 1999... in 2022</a></li>
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<h3 id="how-can-i-make-a-homepage-in-2023">How can I make a homepage in 2023?</h3>
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<li><a href="https://neocities.org">Neocities</a> - "Neocities is a social network of&nbsp;websites that are bringing back the lost individual creativity of the web. We offer free static web hosting and tools that allow you to create your own web site."</li>
<li><a href="https://mmm.page">Mmm.page</a> - Unique freeform webpage creator. </li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.com">Wordpress.com</a>- Technically a blog, but you can make any site with it.</li>
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<h4>Advanced free hosting</h4>
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<li><a href="https://pages.github.com">GitHub Pages</a> - Websites for you and your projects</li>
<li><a href="https://www.netlify.com">Netlify</a> - Has a starter free tier</li>
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<h4>More Resources</h4>
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<li><a href="https://32bit.cafe/cyowebsite">Create Your Own Website Guide</a> and <a href="https://discuss.32bit.cafe/wiki/resources">Massive Resource List</a> - from 32-bit Cafe</li>
<li><a href="https://sadgrl.online">sadgrl.online</a> - Lots of personal website information and links</li>
<li><a href="https://porkbun.com">Buy a Domain Name at PorkBun.com</a> - currently my favorite domain name registrar, with included WHOIS privacy, free SSL certificates, and great prices.</li>
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