About this Archive
From Corporate Pioneers to Private Preservation
My journey into the digital world began in 1996. Back then, I had the privilege of creating the very first corporate website for the ZEISS Group. In a time before modern CMS tools, we built it line by line in a simple text editor, supported by the agency Intershop.
The final product was delivered on a burned CD-ROM—a physical snapshot of a digital era. It was the very first piece of history to be uploaded to my webspace, forming the cornerstone of the archive you see today.
Rescuing Digital History
In 2010, while modernizing websites for friends and family, I realized how quickly the "Old Web" was disappearing. I started a mission to preserve these digital snapshots. Using Web2Disk, I archived nearly 30 historical websites, keeping them functional and browseable. For years, they lived (almost unvisible) on a commercial IONOS webspace – until I discovered the power of the Raspberry Pi.
The Modern Stack: Small Hardware, Big Impact
Today, this entire archive has a new, sustainable home. To avoid the overhead of yet another Dockerized WordPress instance, I chose a leaner, "back-to-the-roots" approach:
This project is more than just a list of links; it’s a tribute to 30 years of digital heritage and a testament to how far home-hosting technology has come.
Welcome to a piece of my digital life.
My journey into the digital world began in 1996. Back then, I had the privilege of creating the very first corporate website for the ZEISS Group. In a time before modern CMS tools, we built it line by line in a simple text editor, supported by the agency Intershop.
The final product was delivered on a burned CD-ROM—a physical snapshot of a digital era. It was the very first piece of history to be uploaded to my webspace, forming the cornerstone of the archive you see today.
Rescuing Digital History
In 2010, while modernizing websites for friends and family, I realized how quickly the "Old Web" was disappearing. I started a mission to preserve these digital snapshots. Using Web2Disk, I archived nearly 30 historical websites, keeping them functional and browseable. For years, they lived (almost unvisible) on a commercial IONOS webspace – until I discovered the power of the Raspberry Pi.
The Modern Stack: Small Hardware, Big Impact
Today, this entire archive has a new, sustainable home. To avoid the overhead of yet another Dockerized WordPress instance, I chose a leaner, "back-to-the-roots" approach:
- Hosting: Privately hosted on a Raspberry Pi home server.
- Connectivity: Securely exposed via Cloudflare Tunnels.
- Design: Handcrafted using RocketCake (with a little creative spark from my AI collaborator, Gemini).
- Privacy first: Instead of intrusive cookie banners, I implemented a fully GDPR-compliant Matomo analytics solution that respects your privacy by design, requiring no tracking cookies.
This project is more than just a list of links; it’s a tribute to 30 years of digital heritage and a testament to how far home-hosting technology has come.
Welcome to a piece of my digital life.
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