I'm still operating my first web site. It's a database of technical specs of theatres in the US and Canada (size of the stage, number of dressign rooms...stuff like that). It's been up since 1997, domain name registered in 1998!
see http://perso.orange.fr/jack-veda I have made some other ones before, but their hosting companies did disappear
PR has been stuck at 5 for a few years. I do not actively market it or try to build links. I have a number of incoming .edu links as well as some libraries and other institutions links to me. It's a niche market (entertainment production professionals and college students, mostly). I have a nice, steady adsense income from it, and I sell email blasts to opted-in users (25k registered with full names, email, some home addys) to industry publishers and retailers a few times per year. I've been approached to sell it a few times but I still hold onto it. Unfortunately, like the son of the cobbler, it still runs on a few Access databases and uses table-based layouts..one of these days I need to move it to MySQL and CSS.
Yeah, i know but only now i knew. I realized that i'm just wasted my time for designed and posted on free host which in turns nobody ever know it's even exist in the World Wide Web. But it's a good lesson for me.
I built my first website in 1999 on tesco.net home pages. It was called Andy Wandy Web and only got deleted a couple of years ago lol.
It sound dandy did you offer candy and pictures of Mandy. Sorry couldn't stop myself. LOL Yea if a lot of us only knew a little more in the early days we would have been rich. Like if we started a site like Ebay or Amazon or a search engine like Google.
I started out with a crappy turnkey e-commerce site around 2 years ago. I eventually migrated from it after coming to dp and learning of all the open source goodies out there.
my first website consisted of a few simple html pages that had all sorts of useless crap about myself on them... now I just use that domain for my main personal email...
My first website is a small tripod site which I have ignored. It was about game development and a bunch of links to sites that have software available.
Vadym: Yupz, i had started domains + paid host since last year learned somes optimized, backlinks ect. and got indexed + some PR, not bad after all. Allout: you reminded me of the old days when i were still using AOL(horrible) and all the suddenly i saw a little eyes ball like icon search box embed with AOL browser(not sure who's powered/sponsored who?), i were thinking some kinds of spywares. Guess what? it's Google search - the search king today. If i recall correctly, it's somewhere the year of '99 or 2k. Only if all of us knew something a little bit earlier (your quote)