BEDLAM 1995

http://copper.ucs.indiana.edu/~ndepirro/home.html

The images displayed here are components of the first multi-page web site that I constructed beginning in 1995.

After searching countless CD ROM back-up volumes, I could locate none of the original .html documents.

I have therefore reconstructed these page layouts from memory. I can remember some files that I no longer have, and I have tried my best to re-create them. I have added some embelishments, but I tried to capture the poor navigability and style of the original site.

The content of the Bedlam site was a knee-jerk response to the homepages that most people were creating at the time. Most corporations that were not involved in marketing high technology still had no web sites of any kind. Porn was available, of course, but not to the extent that it is today. The popularity of sites featuring supermodel pictures predicted the internet's conversion from a Department of Defense project to a worldwide porn network. Ebay and Amazon, to the best of my knowledge, were not yet online and there were no animated .gif images To get a picture to move you had to write a .cgi push to jam .gif files into Netscape. Java code was not yet implimented, but you could fool Netscape 1.1 into making your page fade in from black if you included a few background color tags at the start of the code. There was no Flash, no Shockwave, and no Internet Explorer. The good old days.