websites through the years

Five websites I built between 1999 and 2013 — three lost when their hosts died and recovered from the Wayback Machine, two rescued from Blogger while still alive. A personal museum of the early web: <font> tags, hit counters, image maps and all — imperfections deliberately included; the curator's note below tells you what to expect inside.

The hand-coded era · 1999 – 2006

welcome to @t@kee's homepage! - Microsoft Internet Explorer_ □ ✕
Screenshot of @t@kee's homepage, rainbow letters on black background
1999 – 2004

@t@kee's homepage

My personal homepage on FortuneCity: rainbow lettering, a picture gallery, travel pages, jokes and a guestbook. The hit counter and the news headlines box work again — rebuilt after their services died two decades ago.

FrontPage Express 2.0 members.fortunecity.com ICQ era

One photo has pointed at C:\My Documents\ since the day it was uploaded.

Enter site → Wayback original
AB GENEL MÜDÜRLÜĞÜ ANA SAYFA - Microsoft Internet Explorer_ □ ✕
Screenshot of the Türkiye–EU relations site with a map of Europe, Turkey highlighted in yellow
2001 – 2002

Türkiye–EU Relations · Undersecretariat of Foreign Trade

The EU affairs section of dtm.gov.tr, which I built and ran as its webmaster: legal texts of Türkiye–EU relations, free trade agreements, the customs union and trade statistics — 128 pages of it.

FrontPage 4.0 windows-1254 www.dtm.gov.tr/AB

Somewhere on the map of Europe, one tiny spot is a secret link. Try Üsküdar.

Enter site → Wayback original
türkiye - ab karma parlamento komisyonu - Microsoft Internet Explorer_ □ ✕
Screenshot of the Turkey–EU Joint Parliamentary Committee site
2004 – 2006

Turkey–EU Joint Parliamentary Committee · TBMM

The Joint Parliamentary Committee's site at the Turkish Grand National Assembly, in four languages, with an archive of the committee's joint declarations and press releases from the accession-talks years.

FrontPage 3.0 iso-8859-9 tr · en · de · fr

“En iyi, Microsoft Internet Explorer ile görüntülenir.”

Enter site → Wayback original

The blog era · 2008 – 2013 rescued alive

Thoughtful thoughts - Mozilla Firefox_ □ ✕
Screenshot of the Thoughtful thoughts blog, teal Blogger theme
2010 – 2011

Thoughtful thoughts

When the hand-coding stopped, the writing moved to Blogger: essays on politics, integration, travel — in Turkish, English and German. Its name is no accident: the 1999 homepage had a section called thoughtful thoughts; eleven years later it became this blog.

Blogger atakee.blogspot.com tr · en · de

Rescued from Google's hands while still breathing — every image now lives here.

Enter site → Live original
@t@kee's - Mozilla Firefox_ □ ✕
Screenshot of the @t@kee's blog, gold Blogger theme
2008 – 2013

@t@kee's blog

The personal notebook of the blog years: naval-archive detective work, Turkcell rants, philosophical takes on institutions — six posts across five years, ending where blogging itself faded out.

Blogger tbb-wissenschaftsforum.blogspot.com

Lives at an address named after a forum that never came to be — never bothered to rename it.

Enter site → Live original

Curator's note — what you will encounter inside

These sites are deliberately left as they were built, imperfections included. Restoring them any further would mean destroying what they are: honest documents of how the web looked and worked twenty-some years ago. So, before you go in:

What was repaired, sparingly: the free hosts' injected ad scripts were removed, the text was transcoded to UTF-8 so Turkish renders on modern hosting, and the dead hit counter and news-headline widget were rebuilt to work again. Every intervention is documented, commit by commit, in the repository — the untouched originals live in its history.