Ten years ago, I started playing with a program called Adobe Pagemill and made a simple little website on my3mb of web space provided by my dialup internet provider; earthlink. The title Absolut Wade came from a design project I was working on while in design school at the time where was learning about branding and did a series over Absolut Vodka. Eight years ago today, I was thinking it would be kind of cool to move my web site off of earthlink and get my own dedicated website. The website was mostly some web design experiments and some testing in the new thing called Macromedia Flash. It was really complicated to register a domain back then, the form was damn near rocket science and it cost $80 to register. Then my friend Vincent suggested I run my own webserver from my home computer since I had broadband (before most other people in the country did) and left the computer on all the time. He helped me set it up and from that day absolutwade.com came into existence.
About a year later I moved it from host to host to get it off my machine and it evolved to what you see today. More web design experiments and now a blog that is occasionally but not often enough updated. The web log was created using code from many friends helping me learn at the time in ASP and PHP. Ray, Jon, Paul and others helped a lot to this endeavour. Later, Movabletype was incorporated to manage the weblog part of the website.
The weblog came later but for some time was the main focus of the website. Sometime around 1999 but the early entries had been destroyed in teh great interwebs fire of 1999.
The website became more photo based when I started my travels in 2003 to Australia and I wanted to document my travels. Later this was moved to flickr as it was a better photo management system.
Many thanks to the people who kept interest over the years. It's been fun. Not sure what the future of this website is as I sometimes lose interest in continuing a blog and I seem to be more focused on photography than writing these days. Still, It is a good reference to look back sometimes and see where you are from there to here. and once in a while I still have something to say.
Eight Years of my life on the internet. Happy Birthday.
Some past views of the website from oldest to most current:
AW1.0, AW2.0, AW4.0, AW5.0, AW7.0, AW8.0, AW9.0, AW12.0, AW21.0, AW32.5, AW33.0, AW38.0, AW39.0, AW40.0, AW41.0
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You have always had one of the best eyes for graphic design that I have seen. I have always enjoyed your layouts, even when you were hard on yourself and thought they looked terrible.
Happy iBirthday my friend.
Congrats beau, always a solid site to visit and to check out your travels.
An Absolut Happy Birthday! :P
Now to get you to design our site(*wink wink*)
Congratulations.