It was early 1994 when I coded my first webpage. I used vi on SunOS on of SparcStation 1's in lab of Lawrence Berkeley Lab to write html code.

Then I moved the codes to my Red Hat Linux desktop at home and started to rewrite code with vi or Emacs of Linux machines.

Over the years, html developed dramatically and each time new html syntax or feature was introduced, I tried such feature and updated my homepage with new feature. As I worked in different computing environment, vi environment of OS were Linux, FreeBSD, SCO, Solaris, HP/UX, AIX or Irix at work and Linux, FreeBSD or Solaris at home.

It was not until early 2000 when I started to code html on MS Windows desktop, and although I tried to keep my html codes real clean, the remnants from old OS's and environments are present on some pages, which should not cause regular viewing.

Main pages were modified from the very first one, which were splitted and copied to generate other pages.

As my homepage got so big and complex, it's impossible for me to keep all pages neat although I did cleaning of codes and renaming files on a regular basis.

Newer html pages tend to have cleaner coding compared to old ones, but as html syntax changes, it becomes obsolete over time.

I used text editor to hand-code html page, so html code was really clean at any give time, and avoided using html editor which generated messy html codes.

(June 18, 2005)

Copyright© 2005 Daniel SW Kim