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Today, while browsing through the Way Back Machine on Internet Archive, I stumbled upon an old website that I had made, RunWithTheBest.net (archive link). This was almost certainly my first “professional” website, and I believe I made it in the year 2000 when I was sixteen years old.
The website uses iFrames and graphical buttons, and has information about seminars that they were doing. There’s an html-made printable order form that people could use to theoretically mail in a check with to order the book or pay for the workshop.
My dad worked(coaching at a university) with one of the authors at the time. I remember that my dad also took me to the author’s house and I taught he and his wife how to use their computer.
It’s funny, because I vividly remember the experience of going to help these “older” people learn how to use their computer. (I’m not sure how old they were, really. They seemed old to me at the time, but I was a teenager.) My dad complimented me afterward about how well I explained, and how patient I was, especially with the man’s wife.
That was an experience that stuck in my mind. I referenced it frequently as an anecdote. I had learned that I could help people with their computers.
But I had completely forgotten that I also made the book’s website! There’s no live version of the website anymore. The book, Run With The Best, is still listed at the Olympic World Library, which is pretty neat.