Thank you for the link, this one actually has a worth. However, I think it is too derisive.
I found "the Web" page interesting. 4 years before "The Facebook", it seems like the idea of showing real-life people connections was already vivid in his mind.
I cut my teeth on Geocities in 1996. Frustrated by the limitations of their in-browser editor, I decided to go hard-core and do all my HTML in Notepad :-) I graduated to HotDog Pro and Homesite in short order. Of course, I had the requisite star field background, animated gifs, and requisite <blink> tags.
However, is this a typical path? Today I'd guess many build "sites" using Tumblr, Blogger, or Wordpress before picking up development skills. Even those stumbling through Rails or the like can drop in Twitter Bootstrap with little fanfare and have a pretty decent looking first effort.
Mainly though - Here is the legacy of everything remembered forever. Anyone that gets big or rich or famous from now onwards will have had some sort of footprint on the web, and people will find it.
The big question is whether we start judging people harshly based on this (as we do with politicians already) or if we as a society can finally mature, move on, and allow people to have a past.
With the exception of the banner it's quite a usable website.
A lot of websites in the late 90s looked like this, Web 2.0 huge buttons was not a thing yet (neither was CSS for the most part) and a huge background image would have taken days to load.
Am I the only one who thinks this isn't embarrassing at all?
Title is retarded.
People are forgetting that technology 15 years ago wasn't like today.
Oh and he was a kid. To me this site is cool, and it brings good memories of old web.
And I bet that almost none of the companies who've just posted in the Who's Hiring? thread would have hired a young Mr. Zuckerberg on the basis of his coding chops (let alone his personality) either.
