We all have to start our careers somewhere, and it stands to reason that Mark Zuckerberg would have begun building websites from a very young age. But his first ever website was a far cry from Facebook, and as “the only site where a yellow eye blinks at you”, it was sort of creepy.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Angelfire webpage was reportedly made in 1999 when Zuckerberg was a mere 15 years of age. Although it can’t be definitively proven that the website is actually his until he makes an admission, there is some strong evidence to suggest that the Zuckerberg we know and love was the adolescent behind this effort.
According to Vice Motherboard,
The source code on the home page lists “Mark Zuckerberg” as the author of the page. (There’s no mention of his full last name on the front-facing site, though there is an updated version of Zuckerberg’s Vader Fader called the Zuck Fader.)
Enjoy this, written on the site:
Hi, my name is…Slim Shady. No, really, my name is Slim Shady. Just kidding, my name is Mark (for those of you that don’t know me) and I live in a small town near the massive city of New York. I am currently 15 years old and I just finished freshman year in high school. I have remodelled this website in an attempt that perhaps some search engine will recognize it.
Slim Shady? Shame!
A genuinely impressive part of this website is “the web” which was designed to show the social networks of a person, “Mark” explained it as the following:
As of now, the web is pretty small. Hopefully, it will grow into a larger web. This is one of the few applets that require your participation to work well. If your name is already on The Web because someone else has chosen to be linked to you, then you may choose two additional people to be linked with. Otherwise, if you see someone who you know and would like to be linked with but your name is not already on The Web, then you can contact me and I will link that person to you and put you on The Web.
If this is Zuckerberg’s first website, then you’re looking at the genesis of Facebook. This is true originality – genius, even – right here.
[Source: Huffington Post, The Verge, Motherboard]
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