Valerio Di Giampietro

Personal Web Site

My first personal web site in 1996

On the upper left a smiling picture of myself shot on the first birthday of my first daughter, on the upper right a tattoed arm with the motto “Born to Network”.
The resume icon was grabbed from somewhere on the Internet, the book icon was grabbed from the Amazon web site, the other icons came from an icon collection for Unix X/Windows system.… Read the rest

Web site history: my first personal web site (1996-1999)

I published a personal web site for the first time in January 1996, subscribing, for a small fee for this service (no free hosting available at the time). The web site had few simple html pages, the most important page was my resume!. These pages had the following features:

  • manually written html
  • the background was grey as it was the common that days
  • few kbytes of images to have nice and fast to download pages
  • on the upper left of the home page I had a smiling picture of myself that was shot at the first birthday of my first daughter, on the top right another picture, scanned from a newsmagazine, with a tattoed arm with the motto Born to Network
  • the home page started with the words “I’am a (relatively) young Electronic Engineer with almost ten years of experience …”.
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