I was rifling through old cds and came across archives of ugly made since late 2001 … back in the day when I thought Photoshop was too hard and Paint Shop Pro was the best software ever. I also considered becoming a 3d animator back then, too. Bryce was my weapon of choice (I was in for a shock when I tried out 3DSM after using Bryce).
I’m so embarrassed by the titling and singing on the bottom right of all the images. Those were meant to be covered up by the taskbar on my bad-ass 800×600 display.
I also loved Splash pages. Went all out with what fonts you needed to view the site, which browser was best, what was better since the last version. It’s disturbing how many sites “required IE 5.5+” … …
It’s hard to take screenshots of the old sites I’ve made because they were built using the Homestead/Geocities site builder; flash forward 8 years and I am left with folders of image slices meant to be absolute-positioned-together. Once you get into the 2004-area I started playing with early versions of MoveableType and later, WordPress. I didn’t have the foresight to keep database backups back then, or even the version of MT/WP/GreyMatter I was using. Those layouts are kind of lost, as a result.
WITH THAT BEING SAID … I do have a whole lot of desktop backgrounds — which have the benefit of looking a tiny bit decent because they were put together in Bryce, which requires no effort whatsoever.
RIGHT, ONTO THE GOOD STUFF:
SUPER-OLD STUFF
Most of this stuff has a date attached, but if it doesn’t — it likely came from 2001-2004.