Ancient Web: Khurram Hashmi Preserved Panoramas and a Web Resume

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A personal website is a peculiar sort of time capsule when its owner never throws away the old equipment list.

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The front page declares “since 2003” and moves cheerfully between a resume, a gallery, bicycle interests, family photographs, and long panoramic views of Southern California. Rather than bury the past in a social feed, it keeps dedicated links to individual field trips made in 2005 and 2006.

The original resume page is practically a museum of web careers in transition. Hashmi lists his work in industrial automation at ConAgra, followed by freelance website development, usability work, PHP and Perl, search optimization, and a sprawling record of domain names and hosting migrations. References to Dreamweaver, FrontPage, phpBB, PHP-Nuke, and personal affiliate sites reveal what a web developer actually juggled in the 2000s.

A panorama before the phone could take one

The Joshua Tree photograph collection documents an outing to Keys View on September 5, 2005. Hashmi describes stitching 15 separate 50 mm images into a 120-degree panorama; another image covers roughly 190 degrees. The page expects visitors to scroll horizontally to see the result.

The Ryan Mountain page does the same with nine and twelve frames taken within minutes of each other. A Wonderland of Rocks entry identifies a Canon Digital Rebel, tripod, manual focus, and PTAssembler as part of the workflow.

These are not anonymous vacation images. The captions include dates, viewing directions, lenses, elevations, and explanations of what the photographer was trying to capture.

The site's original resume also references a 2000–2001 educational homepage available through the Internet Archive. That is a distinct earlier project, not evidence that the present domain existed then.

Some of the old business links have changed owners or disappeared. Their migration notes are historical evidence, not invitations to trust every current destination.

The joy of the archive is its unfiltered mixture: an engineering career, a hobbyist's photographic methods, and landscapes that take as much screen space as they need.

Browse the original panoramas and the 2000s web-development resume.

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