The oldest webpage I have found decent archives of was from 1998-1999. It was "Works Best in IE" and all sorts of TABLE layout and weird magpie bits of JS madness. I based my current blog look in part based on what that 1998/1999 version of me thought would look cool for a webpage and couldn't quite pull off with TABLEs and GIFs.
I know I was building them years before that, but I'm not sure if I could tell you exactly which year I started. I do remember that a lot of my first web pages were hosted on the 1MB (then 2MB) AOL "MyPlace" (which was before AOL Hometown and before the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive). I remember at one point using up all of the AOL account's profiles just to have web pages on them. It was supposed to be a family account, but I was the one most (ab)using it.
My recollection of it, and that recollection is probably all sorts of wrong at this point, that 1MB version of "MyPlace" was one of the launch features around the time of Eternal September (in 1993 or 1994), so it is very possible I was "hosting" web pages as early as 1993. As I recall it, I was building web pages even before that AOL hosting, and mostly "hosting" them just on floppy disks I'd take to school. (Which is the reason I can't rely on my recollection too well here: I was a very precocious 9 in 1993.)
I know I was building them years before that, but I'm not sure if I could tell you exactly which year I started. I do remember that a lot of my first web pages were hosted on the 1MB (then 2MB) AOL "MyPlace" (which was before AOL Hometown and before the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive). I remember at one point using up all of the AOL account's profiles just to have web pages on them. It was supposed to be a family account, but I was the one most (ab)using it.
My recollection of it, and that recollection is probably all sorts of wrong at this point, that 1MB version of "MyPlace" was one of the launch features around the time of Eternal September (in 1993 or 1994), so it is very possible I was "hosting" web pages as early as 1993. As I recall it, I was building web pages even before that AOL hosting, and mostly "hosting" them just on floppy disks I'd take to school. (Which is the reason I can't rely on my recollection too well here: I was a very precocious 9 in 1993.)