Could this yellow blinking eye be Zuckerberg's first Web site?

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(Credit: Angelfire Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)

Some religions worship relics.

Bones of saints and artifacts of old emerge seemingly from nowhere, with no one ever truly knowing how real they might be.

I therefore bare my skepticism with moves not dissimilar to those in a Haka dance on hearing that Mark Zuckerberg's first ever Web site might have been unearthed.

My inconsistent reading of Motherboard today offered the startling information that Zuckerberg's first site might have included a blinking yellow dinosaur eye.

It seems that someone posted to Hacker News that the Facebook CEO's first masterwork was still available on Angelfire.

It's headlined: "Hello and welcome to my page!"

Could it be that even in 1999, Zuckerberg oozed friendship?

I am not so sure, as the words beneath the greeting read: "The only site where a yellow eye blinks at you."

When I think of a lone eye blinking at me, I think of words like "beady," "creepy" and "cyclops." But perhaps, in those days, this might have seemed charming.

Motherboard does a delightful exposition of the forensics as to whether this site m... [Read more]