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Back before I blogged, I home-paged. Oh yes I was Internet-savvy back in the 90s. I created my first home page towards the end of 1997. And back then, there weren’t any fancy blogging software to use. It was all lovingly hand-coded in HTML. CSS hadn’t even come into the picture yet. And for the more tech savvy among my readers, some parts don’t render well in Firefox. Not my fault, Firefox was not available then and I wasn’t using Netscape at all. So I was coding for IE and all its quirks. ;)

Here’s the link to a copy of that site which was last updated in May 2000. If you have followed my blog since a while back, you’d realised that I’ve “repackaged” some writings from that old home page onto the blog.

Looking at some parts of it now tends to make me cringe, especially the poetry section. Wtf was I thinking. Heheh. But the site was most definitely the genesis of my blogging habit now. Even though I didn’t really pick up blogging, ie. writing on the web again until the end of May 2005.

Karen Cheng

And speaking of hand-coding home pages, did you know that Karen Cheng’s blog is also hand-coded? That’s right, she doesn’t use any blogging software. This feat is impressive though I’d imagine it to be quite tedious. Everytime that she adds a new post, she has to presumably edit the “index.html” page and also the monthly archives page.

It’s a labour of love indeed. And although it lacks the typical functions of a modern blog such as permalinks, trackbacks, comments and RSS it’s a very beautifully designed site. I salute you Karen! :)