It passed a long time from making of my first webpage. I think it was my first attempt to make a geocities website (unfortunately you can’t access it from inside Iran because of filtering, but those days you were free to see any site you wish and any where on the web you
surf.), that was really a good one at that time.
Yahoo at those days gave us more free services such as ftp service, Microsoft FrontPage publishing service etc, but day by day those free services faded away and today we can’t see a free ftp service on yahoo free geocities plan.
I made my first website with FrontPage 97 (I
doubt about the version but it was older than FrontPage 2000 if it weren’t 97).Bought a CD full of FrontPage templates for website and choose one out of it, trying hard to make a hit counter and make my web site so interesting for any visitor came to it. Watching my site daily to see if anyone came and watched it, But my plan was not a good one, and there were no interesting things on my website and no daily update, therefore no hope remained for me so that visitors click on the internet explorer and pay the internet price to see my website containing some personal information, some pictures related to Zoroaster, some poems etc.
Failed but was being really a good attempt getting into IT world, I never felt desperate and try hard to do my best with the internet. I thought internet is one of my life opportunities which I should use it in the appropriate way, So I decided to make something those days called yahoo clubs and nowadays there is no sign of it, all of yahoo clubs and yahoo groups mix together and make yahoo groups.
After that, I came to a conclusion that by investing a little money I can do better in IT world, decided to register a domain, those days I think I was about 18,I registered www.sheida.com , for the first time it was really exciting for me to have a domain for yourself but what could I do
with it ? for a long period of time there was nothing on it and no email was delivered to my sheida.com account, even my friends didn’t send
me emails to shahin[at]sheida[dot]com and they as usual sent me emails to my yahoo account , but now you can find out that www.sheida.net , www.sheida.org and sheida-co.com and a lot of domains like that are registered.
Once surfing the internet, I mentioned someone registered www.sheidaei.com , So I decided to register that too and after .ir domain get into life www.sheida.ir too.
But what might I put there ?
Before registering those domains, I get involved making a flash for a website, a
flash intro that
finally didn’t bring me money, So I decided to have it on my website and for a while there was only a flash on my website. A bit later I get familiar with something called phpnuke, at
those days I didn’t know anything about Mambo or any other CMSs, So I decided to make my website with that, at first it was really hard for me to get into it’s code and fix the problems, I tried to fix them without changing the code but after a while there were nothing in the earth able to prevent me to change the code and do whatever with it .
(to be continued)