Sometimes what you did in the past does come back to haunt you.

In 2000-2001, my friends and I made the school website for my old school. We actually spent more time bufooning around, playing Age of Empires II, Counter-Strike, and watching cute shows like Bunny Slippers and making stupid stuff on Flash than actually working on the website. We were like 2 years behind our schedule due to coming up with various versions of the school website (and most notably, playing Civilization III and getting caught by the teachers)

Anyways, before we were caught by the teachers playing Civilization III, we actually did complete a shabby looking site. If we did it today, we would have went through all the XHTML verification, but we were young then, and we didn’t. Obviously, the end result is one crappy site. Well, we had a lot of grand plans for it (and we succeeded in most), but in general, we thought it to be extremely distasteful by 2002. We basically disowned the website by then.

Five years down the road, today, I discovered that the site is still very much alive. It wasn’t in the WayBack Machine, but it is live though malupdated. And much to my chagrin, it still functions! Ugh. Some parts have been removed completely though (Or Seng Kiat never really finished uploading the whole thing).

Here’s a screenshot of what crappiness it is (I did some minor edits to remove the school name and logo):

Visiting the site today, after so many years of creating it, one thing struck me odd. Our designs were really rigid. And since our monitor resolutions were really small then (800×600), the site itself is small.

I googled a bit more, and there exists a newer site, running on Joomla!, and isn’t popular at all (because the current admins are prats, and have absolutely no knowledge in IT, and continued to use our old work as a base with no regards to copyrights at all).

Come to think about it, our old site looks way better than the current ‘official’ site. Heck, our old site even used to contain a VRML tour of our school. Which school has VRML in 2001? LOL. Props to the proper coders (Adam, cfgt and I)

I still remember, when cfgt complained to me that someone in the team didn’t have the color sense (the grey text on grey background argument), or when there was internal conflict, leading to half the team locking the other half the team outside the IT Room. Fun times it was. Fun times.

I felt like stabbing myself in my eyes when I saw this site on FaceBook earlier. Then I found the new ‘official’ site. I no longer want to stab my eyes anymore. :D. I stabbed my thigh instead. Multiple times. And I seem to be leaking some sort of red juice from my thigh’s stab wounds. I wonder what it is, since the pen I used was actually a black G2. Tastes salty.
Right. ’nuff ranting. Back to working on my assignment (1000 words!)

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