Alfred Cazares
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Abraham Lincoln tribute page

Sixty-four lines of hand-written HTML. The first web page I ever built, and still public.

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A single-page tribute to Abraham Lincoln: a heading, a portrait, a timeline of his life, and a closing quote. Sixty-four lines of HTML and a stylesheet. No JavaScript, no framework, no build step.

It is running above, served from this site rather than the one that went down.

This is the first web page I ever made. It was on my first personal website, and unlike the other three from that site it has always been public, so it is the one thing here you can still just go and read.

I am not going to claim it is good. The markup is presentational in places and the CSS does things with margins that I would now do with flexbox — which did not meaningfully exist in browsers I was targeting at the time.

It is here because a site about what I build should include the first thing I built. Nine years later the same person is writing Terraform for production AWS accounts, and both of those pages are on this website. That is the only argument for keeping it, and it is enough.