Flashback
I traced back some of my early websites. The other day I kept guessing urls on The Wayback Machine and suddenly I found one: xneothemaster on Geocities.
I was quite surprised to find the website embedded a Flash file. I remember using Macromedia Flash to create Counter-Strike team tactics—where I would draw our positions on maps like de_dust and de_nuke—but I forgot that I used it for websites as well.
Unfortunately the website is nothing more than an under construction page saying “s00n updated...” That never happened of course. Nonetheless, it’s a treat to be able to go back in time and see what my 16-year-old self created in 2003: www.geocities.com/xneothemaster
It made me wonder about my Counter-Strike years. I remember my 5-on-5 clan impius ranking quite high on ClanBase around 2004. That was the year we visited Netgamez 2004A, a LAN event in Nieuwegein. What a pleasure to find the clan back on the ClanBase website, which looks exactly how I remembered it.
I’m unsure if my memory of a number one position on ClanBase is accurate or a trick of my mind. There aren’t any snapshots to confirm it, so I guess I’ll have to live with #5.
Clicking further on the clan’s name I’m suddenly met with the thing I was subconsciously searching for: the domain of the clan’s website. It turned out to be www.team-impius.com and I had no idea what to expect when visiting that page. Did I call myself m1es or mi back then? I wasn’t so sure.
Of course it’s another under construction page, but I’m happy to learn I’m mi and there is actually some information on the page, like the team members and the link to our #impius IRC channel.
Now I'm curious to find out how I made the left and right columns of the website have equal heights. Is this already done with Simplebits’ Faux Columns? Inspecting the HTML source I’m met with ASCII art that makes me smile. Bright memories.
The layout is actually coming from Dreamweaver: it’s a table with a fixed height. Bummer.
