Time Capsule 2000

Happy New Year!

During my holiday break I’ve been lucky enough to discover a handful of my old data CD’s from my high school IT classes. Going through the content of these discs has been an incredible throwback for me, consisting of files and content from various Information Technology, Computer Science and Drafting courses from 20+ years ago.

One of my most exciting discoveries was a Time Capsule site that I created shortly after Y2K. I recall doing this as part of one of my IT classes as one of the first webpages I ever created. This was meaningful for me for a few reasons:

• I loved being able to take a look at a small snippet of my code and how I structured the site, the banner I created (using one of those banner-generating sites from back in the day), the images I likely “borrowed” from another page. I even went in and made a few changes to have it format more properly in modern browsers!

• The content of the page was also fun to look back at. It highlights some of the biggest moments of my childhood life. It also gave me comfort knowing that many parts of my childhood are still prominent to me, including my love for music (many of the bands listed I still love!) as well as my love for sports.

I wanted to post this online and after researching on the easiest way to host a single page (AWS, Google Cloud, etc.) I chose Github Pages which worked out quite well. You can visit the site at dylanhansen.github.io/2000timecapsule and can also see the source code here. Please don’t judge my 20-year-old imlpementation!

This did trigger for me a though around creating a 2020 Time Capsule, and it might be something I do with my children in the next few weeks. For now, I’ll continue to blog more as something I can look back on many years down the line, as well as continue to take lots of photos of my life experiences!