What know that before starting Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg built a number of different sites for himself and others. The most memorable was Facemash, the site that he built as a freshman that acted as a "Hot or Not" for Harvard students. But according to the good folks at Hacker News, Zuck was building web pages way before that with the help of Angelfire.
The site, which sports a banner saying "Mark's Homepage" with a subhead which reads "Hello and welcome to my page! The only site where a yellow eye blinks at you," was reportedly made in 1999. The site has six pages including an "About Me" page wherein the author introduces himself with:
Other pages include ones on "The Web" where the author shares his thought on the world wide web: "As of now, the web is pretty small. Hopefully, it will grow into a larger web." It also has some things he made, like Pong Game, which lets you play a game of Pong, and download links for Vader Fader, a fader tool her developed for use with AOL.
It this really Mark Zuckerberg's old website? A lot of clues point to yes. The years match up. It shos the work of a precocious mind with an eye for developing useful tools.
[Hacker News via The Verge]