About this website.

Timeline

• 1990

  Born.

• 1996

  Send first email to mom.

• 2001

  Sign up for first email account and AIM username.

• 2003

  Graduate middle school.

• 2005

  Sign up for Xanga and learn how to make Xanga layouts.

  Create Geocities website.

  Sign up for Myspace.

  First Gmail account.

• 2006

  Sign up for Facebook.

• 2008

  Graduate high school.

  Sign up for Twitter.

  Sign up for CreateBlog and learn how to make Myspace layouts.

• 2009

  Sign up for Wordpress.

  Buy first domain name elletricity.com.

  Create first website with PHP.

  Sign up for Tumblr and learn how to make Tumblr  hemes.

  Begin freelance work.

• 2012

  First time buying hosting.

  Buy gabriellew.ee domain and set up Wordpress.

• 2013

  Buy gabrielleismy.name. Version 1 of nameplate.

  Switch gabriellew.ee to Jekyll and Github Pages, hosted on Dropbox. Version 1 of website.

• 2015

  Switch generators from Jekyll to Cactus. Version 2 of website.

  First startup job as front-end developer.

  Sign up for Codepen.

• 2016

  Graduate college with a degree in Game Art & Design.

  Quit startup job.

  Start coding experiments on Codepen.

  Launch Version 3 of website.

• 2017

  Version 2 of nameplate.

  Write Codepen post on CSS-only direction-aware effects.

  Start new job at Level Studios as a vendor for Apple.

• 2018

  Accept full-time Apple job as front-end engineer.

• 2020

  The pandemic hits the world.

  Convert website to Netlify and launch Version 4.

• 2021

  Launch Version 5 of website.