The Way We Shared

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British Journal of Photography website, 1998

[thewayweshared]

"I first put digital photographs on-line in 1996 using a CASIO QV-10 digital camera: http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Casio_QV-10 The site was designed using Internet Assistant for Word with images pretty must straight out of the camera as they were very low res and small in size. I hosted it on the University of East London website in the personal web pages section, I was a member of staff at the time.  The odd thing is they have never taken it down and it is still live to this date: http://homepages.uel.ac.uk/gh/digital.htm  The first digital photograph I ever took is on this page (Pedal Power): http://homepages.uel.ac.uk/gh/fair.htm"

Richard Gough, Photographer

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"You'll notice that tank.tv hasn't really changed very much since 2003.  In fact the archive that we have available to our subscribers looks almost exactly the same today.  An aim of tank.tv is to give viewers anywhere the same experience viewing of high-quality, curated programmes of artists' film and video.  Our website has to be subtle but eye-catching -- it will never fight to be the focus of our audience's attention.  Like the Internet itself, tank.tv is free, open and non-hierarchical: all power to the user."

Ajay RS Hothi, Manager and Curator, tank.tv

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"I dug up this little gem from 2001. This is the homepage of our Counterstrike-Clan from back then called "iug" (Indians Using Grenades).

It was done mainly in Photoshop, the totally rad navigation-mouse-over-thing was done with Adobe GoLive since I knew nothing about HTML or Javascript at the time.

You can see it in action here: http://christopherkamper.com/misc/iug/mainframe.htm "

Christopher Kamper

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The Photographers' Gallery Website, February 1999.

"It always reminded me of the first Channel Four logo, but also - I assume - reflected the idea of the darkroom, light refracted through a prism, pinholes on a camera etc. It was super clean looking and easy to navigate. There were no images on the home page, but somehow the design led you into the content pages and had a sense of prioritising programme content over design."

Clare Grafik, Head of Exhibitions, The Photographers' Gallery.

[thewayweshared]

QUORA: Who designed the "broken image" icons?

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My first website was on my University's web server, before a foray into Tripod and also CompuServe hosting (where I was a helpdesk person). In 2001, I bought my own domain and tried to conquer the world with this website portfolio. I remember with joy the experience of mastering the <tr> and <td> tags, as it opened up a whole new world of layouts to me.

Katrina Sluis