Home About me Media Download stuff My projects Links This webpage Everything else	This webpage         My webpage has been up for a long time, and has had a reputation for being really ugly and marginally useful. Though I'd like to think that my current webpage is pretty cool, someday it'll end up below with all of the.... Dead webpages: These are the old versions of my website on dorm.org. I started my first webpage on Geocities in 1998, right after 5th grade. It was never finished, and was hardly started in the first place. Soon Andy's brother allowed me webspace on his fine server and I have maintained and disregarded my webpage over the years. These are the old designs, or at least the ones I saved. Note that many of the images and links are bad, and I don't want to fix them. Feb. 1999 - Aug. 1999: The first iteration: Matt's Multi-Purpose Webpage. I'm so embarrassed. This design is actually one of many like it, there was a starfield one and a plain white one before the bug-splat one "featured" here. Sep. 1999 - Apr. 2000: In this version, I had a new focus: standards. Though I tried to put new content up, it was the same as the first one, with a theme and a table tag. Apr. 2000 - Feb. 2001: Arguably better than the previous design, the blue-green-red combo really started to burn the retinas. This was the first time that the page was not called "Multi-Purpose", and was not just a webpage dedicated to serving a text file of pi and a few rather poor midis. Feb. 2001 - Jul. 2003: Wow, was it really up for that long? It was supposed to be an improvement on the great appearance of its predecessor. I didn't once make a major update to this site for its entire existance. Jul. 2003 - Now: The page is now infused with PHP. This allows me to edit one page instead of 40+ to change the menu or fix a footer bug. Plus, it looks slightly better. If I would ever want to change it, I can just modify a couple files. Plus, it has content that I can imagine people might want to look at, which is nice. Lost webpages/images: Lost images: It's funny to see how much your taste improves over the years, isn't it? Many of the images that used to be on this page aren't up yet, because I'm lazy. circa Jan. 2002: I started a brand new webpage to replace the aging blue/white eyesore that was my webpage. Unfortunately, IBM's infernal 40 gig Deskstar hard drive clicked and stopped. After I send it in to replace it, the same thing happened a few weeks later. Since then, I've stuck to my Western Digital 40 gig'er and couldn't been happier. Unless it was a 1.2 terabyter, of course. This page was much better design-wise in later stages, but this is the latest version that didn't get deleted. Other amusing pages: These are buried projects. I had either complete or partial control over them. Nerd Dance: This is a joke more than anything, it's not really a webpage. I made it in October 2001, presumably as a humorous page for testing autoplay background sounds. Matt's Palace: First of all, this was a webpage for my old palace. It was a pretty good palace, but only 8 people were allowed to enter at once (since it was a demo version) so traffic soon died down after a couple months. CRNerds.net: During middle school, me and some chums decided that we wanted our own domain so we could all have subdomains and e-mail addresses so we'd all be happy. It never took off, I think because of three reasons: We had no money. The collection I think came to $10. We had no server. Servers are expensive, and reason (a) didn't help this. Nobody cared. The first notion was cool, but work implied sweat and nerds, by definition, hate sweat. The future: I want to update my webpage occasionally so it looks like I'm really working on it, and I want to have some of the cool stuff that made other projects I've worked on seem exciting. I also want to work on more projects like school websites and such. It helps me not only with web programming, but programming in general. I also get to work, or attempt to work, with others on the same project.