From the Never Put Anything Embarrassing on the Internet Or It Will Hunt You Down file:

My friend Zach just sent me an Internet Archive link he tracked down to the second website I ever “designed,” almost a decade ago. It was pretty lousy, even back when it was live and all the graphics still worked.

The site was for CS103, a BYU “Introduction to Programming” course that was, in theory, supposed to be taught via on-line tutorial. It turns out that on-line tutorial is a really ineffective way to teach Pascal to a bunch of humanities majors, so I was among the students that got hired to “TA” (in effect, teach) the class. Like the students, we had almost no oversight from anyone, so we just did whatever we wanted. Like spend an entire week making those graphics at left on the main page, for some reason. Or, in my case, write made-up bios of the other TAs and offer the students extra credit for producing Pascal-related haiku. Or, in Zach’s case, flirt with the students.

If you poke around that site, you can also find a link to the first site I ever designed, for BYU’s International Cinema program (at the time, the most extensive foreign-film screening program on any US campus). It was basically a fansite, though BYU later started hosting it. And later ripped off the design without paying me! Can you name all the movies on the main page? The links don’t work (stupid Internet Archive doesn’t like mapped images) but you can see the rest of the site by typing in URLs directly. If, you know, you were wondering which Iranian films BYU was screening in 1999.

Bored yet? Tomorrow: my high school yearbook pictures scanned and uploaded!