Store Websites from Way back then?

[golddiggerguy]

So who has a memory of a Website store from 12+ years ago they built?

Who had a website that sold stuff online?

A mate and I wanted to get online with a shop - ANY type of shop just something ONLINE and decided it had to be light in weight, fun, cheap to post, and cheap to buy & small to stock.

Thats when we decided Jokes, Masks and Magic tricks was the answer.

http://wayback.archive.org/web/20000816185642/http://www.jokeshopfun.com/

I think it cost around £600 for stock and £1500 for the website build hosting etc.

Sold loads and was just as Silly Jokes .co.uk started too - which could have been us!

:grin:

 

[tifosi]

Ah, the gifs!! Me 'eads gonna explode!

Thank goodness for html4 & css2.1!

 

[Skinner]

I moved into coding and hosting in around 1999 and started my first solo hosting company in 2000.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010522053142/http://www.cen0.com/

Kinda shocking how basic it was and to think I made good money on this before selling out around 3-4 yrs later.

I can't post the name we changed to in 2001 tho as it was sold with the business, but yeah I thought as a "l33t" coder having a zero in the name was a cool idea

 

[tifosi]

Ah yes, tables & 800x600. I remember it well!

 

[grantw]

wax world 2001, it took me about a week to create that logo and those buttons

http://web.archive.org/web/20010302034453/http://www.waxworld.f2s.com/

 

[retired_member34]

Eatmyphone from 2003, my first attempt. Shame some of the images are missing, it looks quite funky in a table and jpg retro sort of way.

http://web.archive.org/web/20030919135628/http://www.eatmyphone.com/

 

[golddiggerguy]

More complete but Orange http://web.archive.org/web/20020926110640/http://www.eatmyphone.com/

Eatmyphone from 2003, my first attempt. Shame some of the images are missing, it looks quite funky in a table and jpg retro sort of way.

http://web.archive.org/web/200309191...atmyphone.com/

 

[retired_member34]

More complete but Orange http://web.archive.org/web/20020926110640/http://www.eatmyphone.com/

I can't claim that I designed or built that earlier version. I bought the site off an internet company, missing the sql database and on the agreement that I changed the design of it.

The internet company was run by 3 lads and was huge at the time (abc verified traffic bigger than Yahoo one month). They sold me on the idea of making a living on the net more than anything, I knew sod all about the net when I bought the site. They had very funky barn conversion offices with 3 Lotus Elises parked outside, and a pool table and a Slush Puppy machine inside. Those were the days! Said internet company soon fell into disrepute for some very dodgy practices...

 

[AssetDomains]

Takes me back the very first page I published on its on domain and host late 2005. Think this was a front page special

http://web.archive.org/web/20051227191609/http://www.thepokercosmos.co.uk/

 

[scooter]

I built my first one in 2000 and could not bear to take it down.:smile:
Amazingly, most of it still works. It will stay there until i die.

http://www.ecossenet.com/





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[Edwin]

Already more than a year old at the point of the snapshot (though only about 5 months under its own domain)
http://web.archive.org/web/19970410053322/http://www.igoldrush.com/

The really old-old site is gone because it was on free space that my then-ISP provided.

 

[bedazzledaz]

I had big plans for this back in 2002, I was most pleased with my rollover menu at the time, used to enjoy using dreamweaver in them days

http://web.archive.org/web/20021124143219/http://www.bedazzle.co.uk/

 

[Murray]

Already more than a year old at the point of the snapshot (though only about 5 months under its own domain)
http://web.archive.org/web/19970410053322/http://www.igoldrush.com/

The really old-old site is gone because it was on free space that my then-ISP provided.

Jeepers you got into domains very early Edwin.

Id be very interesting to read a detailed bio by you, when you got into domaining, how you managed to get britain, cambridge etc

I find it all very interesting, would love to hear other peoples stories too..

Maybe I should start a thread about it, or has there already been one in the past with a similar theme?.

 

[Edwin]

Jeepers you got into domains very early Edwin.

Id be very interesting to read a detailed bio by you, when you got into domaining, how you managed to get britain, cambridge etc

I find it all very interesting, would love to hear other peoples stories too..

Maybe I should start a thread about it, or has there already been one in the past with a similar theme?.

http://www.ozdomainer.com/domain-names-podcast-episode-12-with-edwin-hayward-memorabledomains-co-uk/

Might be interesting

 

[donton]

http://www.ozdomainer.com/domain-names-podcast-episode-12-with-edwin-hayward-memorabledomains-co-uk/

Might be interesting

Just listened to your pod cast - a very interesting insight, thanks for sharing the link.

 

[retired_member32]

great thread, well done to the OP