2004–2005

jennerlafave.com

the first website · age 12

Provenance

Built at age twelve on Lunarpages shared hosting, announced in the site's own news page: “September 12, 2004 — I bought hosting at lunarpages! Get ready to see lots more features.” Excavated from a Dropbox folder marked “Jenner's Site”, two strata deep: the Desktop working copy and the deployed public_html.

Medium

HTML 4.01, PHP includes, Macromedia Flash (intro + sixteen hover buttons), Comic Sans accents, one <marquee>.

Condition

Substantially intact. Flash plays again under Ruffle emulation. The soundboard's audio is withheld from exhibition (the rips were of copyrighted songs) but remains preserved in the archive. Links to the wider 2004 web are severed.

Enter the exhibit

The Flash intro700×426 of pure Macromedia ambition, restored to playback. The homepage, as it ranCookie-greeter JavaScript, Flash button navigation, news of the day. The first build (Dreamweaver, 2004)The earliest stratum — table layout, acemenu era, before the Flash buttons. “It's Coming Back — Fall 2005”The sign hung on the door of the deployed site. Fall 2005 never quite came. The soundboardStreaming music, 2004-style. The audio itself rests in the archive, unplayed.