As I was busy designing
this 2008 site, I managed to dig out a personal
relic, my very own 1998 website... Back in those
days, I was living in Paris and looking for a new
and exciting job and I had the idea to put together
a Home Page (so Web 1.0 isn't it?) to increase my
chances...
Amazingly enough,
it actually
worked and I found (online!) a job offer in London,
for a very small company (Static 2358 Ltd) in an
industry I knew nothing about (Interactive TV).
Apparently, my website had helped a bit, so I've
decided to post it back, 10 years later (ie October
2008).
I like this concept of "Time
Capsule" and I'm glad I have a chance to go back in
time and remember who I was back then. It's both a
very humbling experience and a strong incentive to
achieve in the next 10 years as much (or hopefully
more) as I have since 1998.
Before you open my Time
Capsule, try to put yourself back in the 1998
context. It may help if you have some of those
random facts in mind:
|
Useless
facts |
1998 |
2008 |
| Number of iPods sold
by Apple |
0 |
163.000.000 |
| Market Cap
of Google (Q3) in $Million |
0 |
132.000 |
| % of UK households
connected to the internet |
9% |
65% |
| Mobile phone users
worldwide |
250M |
3.300M |
|
Yes, I know, it's
been a fairly busy 10 years and it's quite hard to
imagine a world without wireless broadband,
iPods, Google, digital TV, flat screens,
etc. So now that I've
considerably lowered your expectations,
please fasten your seatbelts (it might be a
bit of a bumpy ride), get ready for a good
laugh at me,
go back in time and
see you in 10 years! |
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