My website in 1996, about eighteen months after the first version of Miles Ahead
was launched on the internet.
Of course I had no right to use Lee Tanner's photograph, but it had graced the cover
of the then-newly-released Mosaic LP set of the Plugged Nickel recordings, and I
thought it looked cool.
Behind each of the discographical links at the bottom was a separate HTML file
-- an incredible nuisance, with the need for emendations, inevitable broken links,
duplication, etc. But it was around this time that critic Terry Teachout said
some kind things about Miles Ahead in a New York Times essay about
music resources on the internet.
[source]
One of the resources added early on to Miles Ahead: complete lists of Blue Note
and Prestige releases. This list was appropriated without attribution by Richard
Cook for his book Blue Note: A Biography (2001).
Simpler (as befit my negligible design skills), and still all hand-written HTML.
Note the link to Miles Ahead v2.0 -- that's the Access-driven website running on
a Windows server.
Here's the main page for the new version.