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I'm trying to page you on Yahoo but not getting an response :-( EDIT: oh, I see your note "my yahoo pager is screwed too"
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> I never dispose of them with other equipment, instead telling myself I will someday wipe them manually and/or drill through the platters Don't do that! Hoard them to sell on eBay for hobby money later. There is a looming retrocomputing SCSI hard drive shortage. You can already get good prices for 50-pin SCSI drives. I don't know about ATA/IDE drives, but I imagine people trying to build "authentic" systems will dri…
The need for old SCSI/IDE drives is being filled by SD/microSD/CF adapters for those connector types :)
At some point (alas!) I lost the domain robot-frog.com, so note that some of the top-level links on the site won't go to the right place. All the relative links should work, though.
The name of the is the site is kind of silly. I was typing random emoticons in an email and came up with [:|], which looked like a robot frog to me.
- The midi version of the exorcist theme song[0] that autoplayed
- That old animated HR of a stickman peeing onto an internet explorer button
- Various 2600 magazine related documents and links
- A whole bunch of VB6 apps I made and their source code
- A guestbook / hit counter
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1PH_Y8Xn4g
BUT here's my first freelance web design site from 2001:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010201051000/http://darkelement...
The copy on that site is next level cringe worthy.
Also, does anyone remember the original Andy's Art Attack when it came to design? http://www.brucelevick.com/andyart/. Make sure to click into one of the pages because the sidebar was epic for its time.
I miss this era of the Internet. It represents a period of time where average people used the open Web to publish , rather than post on a corporation's platform. Obviously there's been plenty of development since then that I would not give back, but people favoring publishing their own sites rather than posting on social media is not incompatible with those developments. That part didn't need to be lost.
I miss this era of the Internet. It represents a period of time where average people used the open Web to publish , rather than post on a corporation's platform. Obviously there's been plenty of development since then that I would not give back, but people favoring publishing their own sites rather than posting on social media is not incompatible with those developments. That part didn't need to be lost.
When talking about this, people often like to joke about the webdesign back then. But the personal websites had personality. Facebook profiles feel like government forms to me... "here, fill in this standardized array of fields with your personal data."
That said, given the cyclical nature of design trends, I strongly suspect that we'll eventually start to see a gradual shift back toward customization, hopefully avoiding the ridiculous excesses of the MySpace era.
This reminds me of my first Geocities website: a full repository of KoRn's lyrics to date. It's not that this didn't exist elsewhere on the internet (indeed it did, as of course I used these other sites as source material), but nowhere seemed to have the exact red-text-on-black-background look I was going for at the time. The most excruciating part of this memory is not that I worshipped a nu-metal band, but instead…
I love how everyone if filling in the Guest Book! I indulged as well. ;) Man... guest books...