Home Page of Ted L. Johnson III

This picture was taken in April 1964 shortly after I invented Punk. I'm the one with the adorable snarl. To my left is my nurturing sister, Jolene.

A List of My Links

• Phone :
  USA: +1 202‑277‑3853
  MG: +261 (0)33‑05‑392‑80
  Current time in Madagascar: 11:56 AM (Please call me during business hours here.)
• Email : info@tedjohnson.us
• My LinkedIn Profile
• My Portfolio
  The so-called "modern" site with samples of my work.
• E4G LLC
  My consulting company.
• My Blog
  Started in 2004 to make my late dog famous. Updated occasionally.
  Latest posts:
  • Pauline Spacing Out to Newton (Sketch)
  • Rat’s Revenge (Sketch)
  • Portrait of an IPA Bottle Cap (Sketch)

Hand-Coded Since 1994

You're looking at the decidedly unimpressive first web page I ever made.

Don't like the ugly colors? Reload and get different ugly colors.

The code of this page has evolved many times and has been upgraded and validated to modern web standards,^[1] but I’ve intenionally kept the amateurish 1994 "Hello World!" look. I'm kind of sentimental about it.^[2]

More From My Web Museum

• PEOPLink Simulation
  My first web job. We created the world's first nonprofit e-commerce website. It's defunct now, but this is what it looked like when I was in command.
• Cowboy in Africa
  I wanted a web sandbox, so I registered the domain cowboyinafrica.com because of reasons. Now I'm stuck with it. It's the dumbest web app on the web, but I still use it all the time.
• The Virtual Souk
  In 1997 I went to Morocco to prove that a small Moroccan NGO could learn to code HTML and represent themselves online.
• Doctor Moses N. Fokong: Cameroonian Musical Pioneer
  A tribute to my late friend. Includes biographical information gathered during my 1997 trip to Cameroon.
• Bali-Nyonga
  My favorite African village (where I lived and worked as Peace Corps Volunteer).
• My Portal-Lookin' Resume
  My original online resume was also an homage to Yahoo!

Thanks for stopping by! (In a more civilized time all websites used to say that.)

1. ^Upgraded in stages from HTML 2.0, to 3.0, to 4.0, to HTML5; implemented PHP features. (Details for Nerds)
   • Annoying pop-ups and Easter eggs have come and gone.
   • Switched from static HTML to PHP.
   • Updated depreciated spellings: Such as "Web site" to "website." They were originally two words, and "Web" was always capitalized because "World Wide Web" is a proper noun. AP Stylebook eventually surrendered and accepted the common spellings, and so did I. But I still have to catch myself every single time wanting to use the original spellings.
   • Eliminated the old two-column HTML "TABLE" layout and replaced it with a responsive two-column "DIV" layout – killing off the last remnant of the HTML template I started with in 1994.
   • Added compression – because a 68 KB page (including images) can't load fast enough!
   • Moved all internal styles to an external stylesheet – kind of ridiculous for a one-page site.
   • Converted images to WebP format for no good reason.
   • Implemented picture elements so that older browsers will see the JPEG versions of the images. Tested on an ancient version of MS Internet Explorer.
   • Implemented a selection of ugly background colors that change randomly on reload.
   • Implemented another Easter Egg.
   • Made this sub-list collapsed by default, toggles open for nerds.
   • Implemented another Easter Egg.
   • Implemented display of Madagascar time using JavaScript with PHP fallback.
   • Implemented "Latest Blog Post" link automation.
   • Implemented a custom 404 Error. Try it.
   • Fixed a bunch of nitpicky HTML validation complaints identified by the Nu Html Checker
   • Added special JavaScript behavior to links (as though anyone ever clicks the links on this page)
   • Replaced Footnote sublist reveal/hide behavior based on CSS instead of JavaScript.
   • For accessibility, I made the "colored-heading" style always complimentary and in contrast to the background color - but never black or white.
   • Made all of the <H2> tags colored, because what the hell, why not.
   • Added 2 more "Latests Posts" to the blog section, and added some fancy <article> tags for SEO, plus an itemprop="headline" attribute to each link, because ChatGPT suggested it. Update the RSS if you are too neurotic to wait for the cron job. Update the one-page sitemap. Ditto. Added a Backup script.
   • Added Google Analytics.
2. ^This page design is based on a template provided by my original dial-up internet access provider, Primenet (now defunct) included with their dial-up plans (the only kind of internet access they offered) an email address and a little bit of webspace. My first-ever website – which looked exactly like this one – was at http://primenet.com/~tlj3 (archived from the original on December 26, 1996).