websites through the years

The timeline · 1998 – 2026

1. 1998Google is founded.
2. 1999@t@kee's homepage opens on FortuneCity — rainbow letters, hit counter, guestbook.
3. 2001The Wayback Machine opens to the public — quietly photographing everything below.
4. 2001The Türkiye–EU site goes up at the Undersecretariat of Foreign Trade, easter egg included.
5. 2004The Joint Parliamentary Committee site launches at the Grand National Assembly.
6. 2008@t@kee's blog begins on Blogger, at an address named for a forum that never came to be.
7. 2009GeoCities is shut down — the free-host era starts to end.
8. 2010Thoughtful thoughts begins — the 1999 homepage section reborn as a blog.
9. 2012FortuneCity goes dark; the 1999 homepage vanishes with it.
10. 2013The last blog post. Blogging itself fades into social media.
11. 2015ercan-atak.de opens — the translation office gets a website; the blogs' silence explained.
12. 2019Version two — content complete, Impressum and all. Weeks later a WordPress template moves in, and wins.
13. 2022A coding bootcamp in Berlin — the missing developer knowledge, addressed at last. The Lehrjahre begin.
14. 2023ercan-atak.de goes dark, silently. The domain later returns as the developer portfolio.
15. 2023The repo flood: forums, dashboards, catalogues, half-finished everything. MaHalle is born twice.
16. 2024MaHalle v2's last commit: "Upgrade dependencies." The Lehrjahre end as they lived — quietly, mid-refactor.
17. 2026The museum opens — the recovery is documented in the restoration lab — the guestbook reopens, and a links page opens onto the web outside these walls.