the official unofficial homepage for Bamidele O. Shangobunmi

Design History

Station One, 1996-97

As I began studying Plant Biology in college, my free-time focus remained on the 'Net. On May 18, 1996, the second version of my homepage was launched after a quaint first brush with HTML. Visitors using Netscape 3.0 & up could use a slick framed interface. For users of older browsers, a no-frames entrance existed, and navigation existed on every major content page. The site was also tested compatible with Lynx, a text-only browser still popular on major college campuses at the time.

Most of the graphics were rendered in 3D using Caligari trueSpace 2.0.

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View the complete archived site! Points of note:

"Texture Station" webpage/desktop background archive was featured on MSN TV in October '96, shortly after its release, and remained in service until late 2002.
"Music Station" archive was very popular among fans of "tracked" music -- bandwidth-friendly sampled creations that long predated the modern MP3 craze.
User-selectable site-wide background MIDI music still works for MSIE users. My favorite was the Video Girl AI theme.
InfoCenter -> IntroNet, a newbie's crash course in Internet use.
"Station Bulletins" news frame introduced Sept. '96, a concept reused in the "Nepthys One" redesign, and again across the Ultimate R/C Network in 2003, used to this day and often imitated.
August '96 fictitious asteroid scare (InfoCenter -> scroll down -> "State of Emergency Terminated") actually fooled a number of gullible Netizens, leading to frantic emails asking for more news sources.