Artefacts

Inspired by Ruben's Museum here are some of my old sites and other early content lying around on the internet.

Websites

When I was in university I spent a lot of time building websites when I probably should have been studying or doing assignments. Thanks to the amazing Internet Archive some of these live on today.

Some of the them were hand coded HTML, others were generated with Perl CGI scripts, and later PHP. A couple of the less embarrassing ones are detailed below:

• PIC Pages (archived 2000)
  A site that described itself as a collection of PIC microcontroller related material. I'm still quite fond of the design today.

  The IDE Controller page that I transcribed into HTML was interesting enough that Paul J Stoffregen of Teensy fame archived the page, which is still online today: https://www.pjrc.com/tech/8051/ide/wesley.html.

• Wesley's TI-89 Pages (archived 2001)
  A site dedicated to the TI-89 and some of the programs I wrote for it. I still have my TI-89. Head over to the calculators page to see it.

Images

I managed to use a free version of Ulead PhotoImpact that came on a magazine CD as the basis for an upgrade version of Ulead PhotoImpact 5. I made all the graphics for my sites in it at the time. For unknown reasons I still have my copy in its wonderfully bulky boxed software form (pictured here).

• Powered by NetBSD image (c. 2000)
  

  In 2000 I installed my first UNIX system: NetBSD. At the time I wrote:

  The decision to make it into a server was made after Andrew said I needed a sever for developing Perl and C programs. I thought this was a good idea so I set about getting some more hardware and deciding what free UNIX OS I would install on it. After considering FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD I decided that I would install NetBSD. I probably would have chosen FreeBSD except it's USB support was still very much under development and I needed it in order to use my USB modem. NetBSD had built in USB support so I decided to go with it. Also Andrew and Ben had already setup FreeBSD servers so I though I might try one of the others.

  I installed NetBSD on a cobbled together system with a Cyrix 6x86MX-PR166 (133Mhz) CPU and 24 Mb of RAM.

  I liked NetBSD enough that I designed an image and submitted it to the NetBSD gallery. It's still there today. It seems it first showed up on the NetBSD site in early 2001.

  

Other

Random other stuff:

• This is the earliest evidence I can find of myself on the internet. A mailing list post on the calc-ti mailing list in 1997.