First Webpage

HTML5
CSS3

A fossil with fresh paint, and the seam is marked

The markup is the original, committed on 15 October 2020. The styling is not: there was no stylesheet at all for the page's first six years, so what anyone saw until 2026 was browser-default text at browser-default sizes. Two things in the content have been corrected in place instead of left alone, each carrying a dated comment where it appears, because leaving them would have been misleading rather than nostalgic. The contact form posted to a mailto action, which browsers have since stopped honouring outright, so it is a plain link now, with the original fields kept and disabled as a record of what it asked for. And the bio said I was an engineering student in Bangalore, which was true when written; the line stands with a dated note under it saying the degree is finished. That is the same rule the rebuilt booking system's schema follows, where every departure from the recovered original is marked as new: an artifact you have edited silently is not an artifact any more.

What a first page actually looks like

Specifics, because the general version is worthless. Five tables, including tables nested inside the cells of other tables, doing layout: the photograph beside the name, and a skills grid built as a table of tables. Spacing carried by cellspacing attributes on the markup, since CSS was not yet in the picture. Skill levels expressed as literal star characters typed into table cells. Not one semantic sectioning element in the file: no main, no nav, no header, no footer, no section. And a table row opened and never closed, which every browser silently recovers from, and that is exactly why it sat there unnoticed for six years. What it got right is worth stating too, and it is not nothing: a doctype, a character set declaration, and alt text on the photograph, which plenty of professional pages still can't manage.

This one stays as it is

Two other projects on this site are restorations. Both were rebuilt because they claimed to work and did not — an admin panel that was open to anyone, a model that had learned the room instead of the body. This page claims nothing. Rewriting it with semantic elements and a grid would produce a page that lies about when it was written, and its only job on this site is to be the far end of a distance: the same person, six years apart, with a browser and no idea what he was doing. Keeping it costs one static file and it is the most honest thing in the list.