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Fun throwback. Thanks.
Well throwback....it's updated weekly!
Oh sure, the updates are current, but the feel of the site itself and the fun vehicles depicted are quite retro! (And satisfyingly so, I should add.)
I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked
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Then you'll "love" Microsoft's 1994 page: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/discover/1994/
Is microsoft.com currently not loading for anyone else? I'm getting ERR_SSL_UNRECOGNIZED_NAME_ALERT in Chrome, but I'm not seeing it mentioned anywhere else (e.g. Twitter).
Works for me. For future reference, isup.me
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#263Related to this, I had trouble finding examples of pre 1996 web design. The internet archive has a lot from 1997 onwards. The oldest live examples of sites from that era, that I know of are: http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/T... http://oreilly.com/gnn/gnnhome.html http://www.trincoll.edu/zines/tj/tj12.02.93/tjcontents.html The BBC also donated its Networking Club to the Internet Archive: htt…
Hard to believe Softhome.net is still around, and has changed little since 1996:
https://web.archive.org/web/19961226121720/http://www.softho...
Also funny that my email address I signed up for in 1996 with them is still active, even though I dont check it for years at a time.
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#264Well if you purchase a yellow book from 1994 I doubt you will find many businesses listed there to still exist and show correct phone numbers...
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#265I miss the optimism of the early web, when you could create a simple web page, join a web ring and going online was an event. It's richer and deeper now, but the rawness and simpleness of it all was enjoyable and novel.
Is it richer and deeper now? Maybe at the fringes, but I feel that the internet today, with my emphasis being on the "inter" (different) "net" (networks) part of it, is far less deeper or richer than before. What we basically have reduced to are a bunch of siloed netowrks such as Facebook. When I searched for something when Google first came out I got a mix of results from a variety of sites I had never heard about.…
Don't confuse people's tendency to no longer bother looking past the top of the first page of Google with the internet somehow shrinking into whatever fits those slots. Of course the most popular sites now dominate the top of Google's search results, but Google isn't the internet any more than Facebook is.
The breadth and depth of information on the web now vastly surpasses what was available in 1994. Youtube and other video and music streaming sites have provided a media revolution to compare with the transition from radio to television. Social media, whatever its drawbacks are, allows people to communicate and collaborate far more personally than email or basic chatrooms would have.
And let's not even get into the ways that Javascript, HTML5 and Webassembly have and will transform the web into a platform in which virtual machines will converge to becoming just another content type. I know people here like to rend their garments and scream Javascript Delenda Est[0] into the void and just hope everything that happened to the web in the last 20 years just goes away, but the day is coming where all archived and obsolete code will have a URL endpoint that bootstraps a VM and runs it. The best the web of 1994 could do is file downloads, maybe Java applets and flash.
Sometimes the way people here seem to dismiss the modern web is baffling. I get it, but look at it from the point of view of the mainstream web user. The web offers access to so much more than would even have been possible in 1994, and lets people interact with one another on a much more direct and complex level.
Yes, the added richness and depth comes with a lot of baggage, but its undeniably there.
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#266Well if you purchase a yellow book from 1994 I doubt you will find many businesses listed there to still exist and show correct phone numbers...
??? Huh ???
You think most businesses are less than 24 years old? Or do you think businesses change phone numbers every few years?
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#267Thank god for Archive.org
This was my first professional website (19yrs ago!) for the largest Banking Agency and holding company at the time:
DOREMUS https://web.archive.org/web/19980204230930/http://www.doremu...
DAS https://web.archive.org/web/19981203013454/http://www.dasglo...
Sadly my 1st Print Interactive Award for best Shockwave site requires a plugin: https://web.archive.org/web/19990429113419/http://www.eyebal...
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The one I hate is when I find old forum posts explaining how to do something in the physical world and all the embedded photos are broken. Not because the image host went out of business or the user deleted them, but just because they didn't log in for a year and the host deactivated their account. This is why whenever I link a photo I upload it to my own server and I never change the URL.
I apologize in advance as there's no non-morbid way to ask this but... what happens to the images on your server if you die tomorrow? It would be exactly the same situation, right? They would exist until your bill is due in a couple years then your account will be deactivated and your images will linkrot.
He's not advocating people rely on his server, he's saying hosting it himself allows him to quote freely without worry. If someone else wanted to quote him and followed his example, they would not have a problem when he died.
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#269I'm working on https://www.pagedash.com , sort of a personal web archive. Hope it helps people like journalists or authors to keep links alive with their original content, even if the original website goes down.
Sounds like pinboard.io
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#270Well if you purchase a yellow book from 1994 I doubt you will find many businesses listed there to still exist and show correct phone numbers...
??? Huh ??? You think most businesses are less than 24 years old? Or do you think businesses change phone numbers every few years?
Most businesses fail within the first few years. 24 years later much would have changed.