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.