If you've read my site bio you know that before I started building sites professionally I made them for fun for the various quake clans I was in. Recently I was trying to find my Vietcong play discs and came across an old dusty CD tittled "Snider, web + art". I give you, dear readers, some of the contents from that disc. As you know I'm pretty supportive of anyone trying to learn how to make the web a profession and I hope this truly amateur work from my early days inspire any young nerds out there to stick with their work, because you eventually do get better.
Also, holy shit. Look at that fucking poser tough guy image!
Snider web work circa 1999
If you've read my site bio you know that before I started building sites professionally I made them for fun for the various quake clans I was in. Recently I was trying to find my Vietcong play discs and came across an old dusty CD tittled "Snider, web + art". I give you, dear readers, some of the contents from that disc. As you know I'm pretty supportive of anyone trying to learn how to make the web a profession and I hope this truly amateur work from my early days inspire any young nerds out there to stick with their work, because you eventually do get better.
Also, holy shit. Look at that fucking poser tough guy image!
Nice work! Better than what I could do anyway. Especially that last one. I may have you beat in facial hair, but I'm also pretty flabby.
But it's always fun to look over old stuff from back in the day. I remember '99 like it was only 11 years ago...
We've all gotta start somewhere innit?
It does aspiring artists and the like good to see that sometimes even the gods had to work to get to their positions, makes it that little more obtainable.
" You're very brave for posting that last image. "Looks like a gang member. I can totally see a swastika tattoo'd on the back of his head in that image.
" @thehexeditor said:where's the ketchup stain? nothing is as authentic as a ketchup stain on a wifebeater shirt." You're very brave for posting that last image. "Whatever man. I'll kick your ass! I'm wearing a wife beater. Don't mess with me! "
I like how all the pictures that show the toolbar were taken around 5-6 in the morning. Thus proving that the internet is best made at ungodly hours. Also, the 90's; when wifebeaters were a sign of badassness and not redneckedness.
" 1999 Dave scares me :( "1999 Dave still had tons of pimples and was a complete nerd. Very obviously a picture taken with a timer in the loneliness of one's crappy apartment to look tough! This was the embarrassing point of one's late adolescence where you'd collect empty bottles of booze you'd recently drank to show how much culture you had.
...you looked like you were ready to go out back and train pitbulls to be fight dogs while listening to Eminem. LOL Don't worry. Back in 1999, I looked like a skinny Ethiopian that smoked too much pot and watched The Crow a few too many times. OH THE PAST!!!
The web design stuff ain't bad, especially for that time frame. What were you using, just HTML? I tried HTML once. I quit when I made this abomination. I can't believe the fucker is still up. Hey, like I said...I watched The Crow a few too many times!!! Also, yes...that says "webrings" on there! WEBRINGS, DAVE!!!
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