I just had an OMG moment, which I shall explain more about in a moment. Firstly I must explain that I have been an active user of the internet since before 2000 and as such have a very strong internet presence (just google my name and see for yourself!) Well I thought it would be cool to check out to see what artifacts were left from my website building past, I had several websites in the early days that are long lost to history, or so I thought!
(To skip the long story and get to the point go to the bottom)
FOG Games which stood for Free Online Games was the very first website I managed that became a sucess (you could say photogabble is my seccond). It was quite obviousley a free games website and back in 2000 and earlier there were very few websites that hosted a load of javascript, DHTML and java games so as soon as mine was found out it became an instant hit. I used to bounce around the net on various different free hosts and I never cleaned up after myself so there became various versions of the site fossilised there for all time and forgotten by me. To keep my visitors linked to the latest version on the latest host I had one or two fixed domain names which were of course obtained from free sources such as da.ru amongst others, supprisingly I never actually paid for anything to do with my website! I learnt to code html and css in 1999 and went through several websites before settling on foggames, as soon as I noticed I was achieving 1000 visitors a week with over 50 page views per visitor I knew I had a good thing going. Just thinking about it I must have only just started seccondry school 
FOG Games evolved into FO Games (to remove the typo in the original name) in 2001 but I have yet to find any existing versions of that site… This is truely an amazing find for me, because I can see that even then 7 fucking years ago I was pretty damn good at what I was doing! From then on FOGames was achieving in its hay-day almost 4000 visitors a week but then either during the summer of 2002 or 2003 the traffic took a nose dive as other websites popped up with custom flash games combined with kids being off school. Due to most of the traffic originating from schools because my website was one of the few that wasn’t actually blocked my website became a dried up desert and because I couldn’t really understand where all the visitors had gone I gave up on FOGames. To put this in perspective as to what I have now, photogabble regularly gets on average between 150 and 200 visits a day (by 3000 visitors a month) so you can see how much better FOGames was doing in contrast. Being influenced into anime and furry art styles by kina-ink I bought anime-planet.co.uk a domain I let go a few months ago, and which I wish I hadn’t because one of those spam mongerers has nabbed it :| FOGames was quietly shut down and all traffic forwarded to anime-planet and my new hosting I paid for with my first job. After then my dad bought me the photogabble domain a year before I got into Coventry university and I ran a very, very old apple power pc (built in 1982 dual 20Mhz w00) as a server which the first version of photogabble ran on, wordpress and pretty much anything else would run shit show on it so I developed my own blogging software that ran incredibly fast on the server – which was doing well for its age running apache and mysql services on 20Mhz!
(End long story, begin point to post)
Well I have found an example of FOG Games, one of my earlier websites, it would be amazing if I could find my very first hand coded html website but I guess that shall just remain a dream. It’s hosted by fortunecity a horrible host at the time (and a worse one now) but fortunatly they don’t delete old accounts so most my stuff is there abeit horribly scarred by google adverts and other shit fortunecities decided to shove on it 
You can see the website here, and it’s actually taken me a lot longer than normal to write this post because I have been playing the games on there! It’s still got its charm lol. I am now in the process of ripping my website off their servers and stripping out all the extra crap fortunecities added :| it shall be then hosted for prosperity here on photogabble for all to see 
Stay tuned!
